I think he didn't deliberately set nomodeset; it sounds like we're doing this via grub for failsafe. Perhaps we shouldn't, but until that's changed we should continue tracking this issue. Ideally the system should give the user an error rather than crashing, or default to something safe when we're in failsafe mode.
** Summary changed: - Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in drmmode_from_scrn + Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in drmmode_from_scrn [hybrid] ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1124693 Title: Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in drmmode_from_scrn [hybrid] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/+bug/1124693/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp