Public bug reported: 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: xorg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: natty ** Package changed: ubuntu => xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) ** Also affects: xorg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/747338 Title: LiveCD should have a "safe graphics" option -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs