10.04? No thanks, I give up!

[lcn.mustard]

On 10-05-2010 16:45, Tom H wrote:
> 2010/5/10 Edgars Šmits<ed.smits at gmail.com>:
>    
>> I finally give up on 10.04, it's not worth the hassle of trying to get
>> my video output fixed. When last I wrote I was happily working away in
>> the wonderful new 10.04 world (not an upgrade, a clean install), when
>> after an upgrade Saturday I lost my video - all I could see was a
>> white screen with vertical stripes. I received some advice as to how
>> to fix this, none of it worked - I was even able to boot into a live
>> 10.04 session if I used the "nomodeset" graphics option, but wasn't
>> able to fix my problem. I don't quite understand how the new Grub2 is
>> better than the old one - I can't access it by any known keyboard
>> tricks that I know (tab, shift etc), and I can't manually edit it - I
>> tried, and ended up in a memtest hell...
>>
>> Tonight I finally gave up and decided to do a new install from the
>> Live disk using nomodeset, installed and rebooted like a trooper,
>> started doing upgrades etc, and didn't even do a kernel or driver
>> update when after a reboot I was back to a white screen, vertical
>> stripes.
>>
>> I'm going back to 9.04 tomorrow, life's too short to waste screwing
>> around with an OS, no matter how good it may be. I know I'm not the
>> only one out there with a Radeon Xpress 200M card in a Dell Inspiron
>> 1501 - there are lots of emails in the bug lists, but the bugs are all
>> listed as closed. This latest attempt on my part was on a clean,
>> vanilla install, so I know it's not something I've done, and if it is
>> then Ubuntu is no where near ready for the big time. I've been a happy
>> camper for over 5 years, sure, had some problems but usually I was
>> able to sort them out with help from this list, but this time I give
>> up. I don't want to be a computer geek, I just want to load an OS that
>> works as I expect it to.
>>      
> You did not have to move to 10.04 as soon as it was released! But you
> will have to move away from 9.04 when 10.10 comes out because 9.04
> support will end then...
>
> I don't understand how you can blame grub2 for what seems to be a kms problem.
>
> Since nomodeset works when you boot from a Live CD, it should also
> work for your install.
>
> Did you google or post on this list to find out how to add nomodeset
> to your grub2 boot stanzas?
>
>    
I always have problens with the video and totem. So I still with hardy.
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