Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: nvidia-settings
When attempting to do new install of 10.04 or an upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04, X
is broken. The display is just a series of black and white lines. My video card
is nVidia GeForce2 MX / MX400. Had no problems whatsoever with previous OS's.
If I boot into recovery mode and attempt to run failsafe xconfig I just get a
black screen.
I have partially resolved this by changing the xorg.config.failsafe to "vesa"
rather than the default; I can then run in low res graphics mode. HOWEVER if I
then download nVidias proprietrary drivers and run nvidia-config this appears
to write an xorg.config file "default" and when I reboot I still have no
display.
So at present after several days of downloads and meddling around in config
files, I am left with the choice of booting into recovery mode and running in
low res graphics or going back to 9.xx and having a working system.
Must say I am extremely disappointed with 10.04 - it feels as though I am back
in my early days of Red Hat 3 when I had to learn to tweak every bit of the
system. As a relatively old man now I feel that this is no longer an "out of
the box" system as earlier Ubuntu releases were and is very much a retrograde
step. If I had been a Windows user trying to migrate to Linux this would have
put me off for life. 0/10 !!!!!
** Affects: nvidia-settings (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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X totally broken on 10.04 install & upgrade
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578241
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