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[Peter Belew <abcruzww@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have just installed Ubuntu 7.10 on this system. On starting the
installer, I specified the screen resolution as 1024x768x24. The
installation went well, though this system is slow by today's
standards.

Now I am doing an online upgrade to 8.04 LTS. I'm not sure what driver
was selected. In the morning I will see whether this works properly,
but I expect this will succeed. The important thing here is that the
7.10 install creates an xorg.conf file, which is recognized by the
later systems, eliminating boot-time probing for display hardware,
which fails with a number of display card/monitor combinations. (I
have filed several bug regarding various displays on a few different
machines, with similar problems).

Earlier today I helped a friend install 7.10 with an upgrade to 8.04
LTS on a much more powerful system which also would not boot 8.04 or
9.04 live/install CDs. The install and upgrade were successful except
for a problem updating network-assistant at the end of the upgrade
(for which he filed bug #412229).

In my opinion, allowing manual preselection of screen resolution in
the boot line, which was available in releases like 6.06 and 7.10,
should be restored in all future releases. It seems to have saved the
day on this system.

I'll update this report again when the upgrade finishes (with our
without glitches).

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Bryce
Harrington<bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Confirmed
>
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> Xorg won't start on PC with ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC AGP
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411164
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