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[Justin Karneges <justin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

I tried booting from the latest Ubuntu alpha live CD.  The initial menu 
sometimes appears, where you can choose to install or do a memory test, etc.  
However, more often than not it doesn't appear and a timeout will cause the 
system to go on ahead with booting the live desktop.  The initial menu has 
the wrong colors (pink-ish), as well as X once it loads.  Under X, the color 
distortion is more severe.  It is nearly impossible to read unless you know 
already what should be there.  The physical graphics mode switch doesn't seem 
to have any effect on anything.  Whether in speed or stamina position prior 
to cold boot, I get the same wrongly colored initial menu (if i get a menu at 
all), and then I get the same wrongly colored X (which consistently appears).

Once X loads, the touchpad does not work.  I can flip over to the VTs and back 
to X no problem.  The VTs have the wrong colors but otherwise seem to work 
fine.

Sound works.  I hear the familiar jingle when the desktop loads.

I tried suspending (via keyboard in X, mostly blindly) and the system appeared 
to go into suspend, but on wakeup I was greeted with a blank screen.  Maybe I 
shouldn't expect suspend to work from a Live CD but I was just trying to 
think of something to do.

So that's the current "out of the box" experience with bleeding edge Ubuntu.

Justin