Comment 76 for bug 147623

Saïvann Carignan : Thank you for the mentoring.

I just checked this original problem out against the Hardy Alpha4 Livecd and discovered something even more disturbing.

As above, this is a Dell Latitude D630, NVIDIA Quadro NVS 135M (GeForce 8**** series), 1440x900 screen, amd64 Hardy Alpha4.

If I allow the default "Start or Install Ubuntu" entry to run, I get a blank screen followed by the "Ubuntu is running in low-graphics mode" dialog. This turns out to be a dead end on Alpha4 because gdm doesn't get restarted properly after the dialog finishes. So no matter how you reconfigure and test, you get no further.

If I choose the "Start in Safe Graphics Mode" option, I get a blank screen and then to the livecd desktop in 800x600 pixel resolution. This is a dead end for installing because the install windows are too tall, unresizable, and their controls are off the bottom of the screen.

If I use F4 to choose my screen's resolution, and then choose "Start or Install Ubuntu", I get a blank screen followed by the "Ubuntu is running is low-graphics mode" dialog again.

If I use F4 to choose my screen's resolution, and use F6 to erase "quiet" and "splash" from the boot options, then I get a less blank screen (it's a lighter grey than the one the splash causes) followed by a livecd desktop at 1440x900.

This is troubling because it shows that usplash doesn't just fail, its failure is causing other things to fail as well.