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[Peter Belew <abcruzww@xxxxxxxxx>]

In my case, the upgrade to 8.04 after the installation of 7.10 went
well. The display driver selected in xorg.conf is 'vesa'.

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Peter Belew<abcruzww@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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