Corrupt display after upgrade to Lucid

[Patton Echols]

On 12/01/2010 08:15 AM, Boggess Rod wrote:
> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 07:41:04 -0800
> From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: Corrupt display after upgrade to Lucid
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <id5qai$euc$1 at dough.gmane.org>
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> On 11/30/2010 04:02 PM, Rafiq Hajat wrote:
>   
>> Hi folks,
>> I took the daring step of upgrading karmic on my laptop to lucid and
>> now get a garbled screen that's impossible to read. I thing it's an
>> XORG  issue - maybe the resolution? Suffice to say, it is infuriating
>> because most of my work is on this damned machine and I'm totally
>> stuck. Please help if possible.
>> Thanks
>>     
>
> Well Rafiq, you know the drill as you've been here for some time...
> What's infuriating is that you post this expecting everyone on the list
> to automagically look into their crystal ball and extract the details of
> your laptop.
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> Crap! You have a crystal ball that can look into my laptop. <Struggles
> violently to close all the porno images open.>
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>   
Don't bother, NoOp knows his way around a CLI, he'll just issue "$ 
crystalball -l boggess" to extract your browser cache.  There's nothing 
you can do!  <Bwahahaa!>