[Bug 747338] Re: LiveCD should have a "safe graphics" option

[Timo Aaltonen]

there's already the option of choosing extra boot options, like
nomodeset

** Changed in: xdiagnose (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Invalid

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Title:
  LiveCD should have a "safe graphics" option

Status in casper package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in xdiagnose package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

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.

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