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xdiagnose package

  1. Bug #775093
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 775093

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote : Re: [Bug 775093] Re: Provide a way to always boot into failsafe/xdiagnose mode

On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 08:10:48PM -0000, Patrick M wrote:
> Thanks I'll follow this here. a lot of what is going back and forth on
> these posts is above my head. I have tried a few boot options, like
> putting "i.915 modeset=1 and ...modeset=0 and "nomodeset". with varying
> poor results. I have also tried a few different ppa'a and trying to
> force vesa driver. I have not been able to get a regular gui on this box
> with any distro above 8.10. the box does fine with the failsafeX driver
> in "recovery" mode. I don't always get an option to boot into recovery,
> though.

What is your hardware?