Comment 13 for bug 197514

No, Timo, I'm afraid that, as I said it on 2008-03-31, "8.04 beta is _totally_ broken again".
> 7.04: worked beautifully at 1024x768 <--- Not 6.04, my mistake !!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 7.10: totally broken
> 8.04a: works, but autodetects 800x600 only, needs my 1024x768 patch
> 8.04b: totally broken again instead of repaired, at least a patch must regress
I first thought that my former 1024x768 patch worked (that only X autoconfig failed).
But I took that statement back later.
This means that, whatever the config I've tried, xorg resets (reboots) the computer or enters a loop.
Only (and always) if recovery boot is used can the system be run.

'Option "UseFBDev" "true"' is just a "stray" option I saw.
It just appeared in some diff and I didn't try to find out any effect, as nothing works.
I think (not sure) it's been added in the autoconfig since beta and it's not used in my patched config.
So, xorg fails with it (autoconfig) and without it (my patched config).
I will check anything you find important.

What I did at your request.
Boot in recovery mode, select xfix+resume normal boot, run Ubuntu in 800x600
Added Debug option, resulting xorg.conf attached.
Reboot normally, Ubuntu does an "untimely self-restart", computer reboots
Recovery mode, of course, select resume normal boot (no xfix), ...
Pick up Xorg.0.log (.old of course) as well as =.log (recovery mode) and other logs' tar.

Many thanks for taking care of this, Timo.
Do you think we'll get in time to make a bootable LTS Live CD for those machines?
I'll be hurrying every test.
Starting in fullscreen mode as 7.04 did would be marvelous.
But at least any solution to avoid recovery boot would make that machine usable.
Then I'll have to teach Linux to my wife ;-)
Thanks again.