Comment 4 for bug 127535

Thanks a lot for your reply!

This is the normal (i.e. not "alternative") desktop live CD for x86. It is Ubuntu, not Kubuntu.

Until now, it was this:
X came up, I saw the GNOME starting dialogue with the animated system icons, I saw the normal background (but not the image, only the colour) and a mouse cursor, but that's it. When pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, the background flashed once and the mouse cursor disappeared. Doing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace a second time didn't work. When booting up in safe mode, the boot worked, but I received the "error initializing HAL" error message in a GNOME dialog box.

All of a sudden, it works! I use the same machine and the same CD-R I tried to boot up from before, and it works even with the non-safe mode!
I tried leaving the default resolution in the CD's GRUB boot menu on "VGA", then it worked. However, the 1600x1200 are being detected and displayed correctly as soon as GNOME starts up.

Once, I had nautilus, panel and evolution-alarm-notify crashing, but the it didn't occur again.

Messages during the bootup on console are something like
- intel_rng: FWH not detected
and
- four files not found:
/var/lib/acpi-support/system-manufacturer
/var/lib/acpi-support/system-product-name
/var/lib/acpi-support/system-version
/var/lib/acpi-support/bios-version
(By the way, I think I didn't see the console when booting up directly in 1600x1200)

I think I tried out leaving the resolution at VGA even before (but I am not 100% sure), so here are some changes I did the last days on my machine:
- I repartitioned my hard drive, removing my previously existing Vista partition and installed XP again
- I updated my BIOS to the most recent one (had also a recent one before, but a new version came out some weeks ago)

I read the HAL error can be caused by mounting errors, so maybe the Vista partition was the culprit?

In conclusion, my bug seems to be partially invalid, but Ubuntu still doesn't boot up correctly with 1600x1200 when I set this in the CD's GRUB bootloader.