Hi pacrook, As I've been experimenting with KMS and failsafe mode lately for Lucid, we've found that issues like this one crop up. It seems that the -vesa video driver (which failsafeX mode uses) doesn't work well with KMS. We've converted it to use fbdev instead. I'm >pretty< sure that'll solve this issue. Basically, you can test it by substituting "fbdev" instead of "vesa" in the xorg.conf.failsafe (or your xorg.conf).
Alternatively, just boot the Ubuntu Lucid livecd, edit the xorg.conf to make it invalid (append 'foobar' or whatever), and then log out and back in (or do 'sudo service gdm restart' from the command line). Hopefully it should pop you into the failsafeX session properly. If you get a chance, please give it a try and let us know. If we don't hear back from you in a few weeks we'll assume it's no longer an issue. ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Incomplete -- upstart failsafe incorrect screen resolution when running with 2.6.31 kernerls https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/492270 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ 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