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
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/747338
Title:
LiveCD should have a "safe graphics" option
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