LiveCD should have a "safe graphics" option
Bug #747338 reported by
Marius Vasilescu
This bug affects 3 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
casper (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
|
Wishlist
|
Unassigned | ||
xdiagnose (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Wishlist
|
Unassigned | ||
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Especially on nVidia cards, the default nouveau driver may not work and the user would have to add a nouveau fake parameter at boot options in order to crash the driver. It would be much better, especially for unexperienced Ubuntu users, to have an easy option to boot with safe graphics. For instance I filled the nouveau bug #564572 on april 2010 and it hasn't been fixed. A new Ubuntu user would probably just give up because it doesn't work. The live session should either have a "safe graphics" or an automatic blacklist of nouveau for a certain graphic cards that have known critical bugs.
affects: | ubuntu → xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) |
tags: |
added: oneiric removed: natty |
Changed in xorg (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Bryce Harrington (bryce) |
Changed in casper (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in xdiagnose (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Bryce Harrington (bryce) → nobody |
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Closing the -nouveau task since this is a general purpose feature request. The driver issue has it's own bug report.