Since feisty is taking too long to install at the moment, I reverted to Edgy.
The problem is that during install when it comes to configuring the xserver, I am asked to select the correct resolutions from a list, but after this there is no choice of colour depth. Even though I selected 800x512x16 at boot, it just goes back to default 24 after install. So when I reboot, gdm is garbled and switching to a vty doesn't work either. This means I have to boot in recovery mode to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Once the defaultdepth is changed to 16. Ubuntu will boot with no problems. It's the installation process that doesn't work well. I can't remember exactly, but I think Dapper gave you more options to select during install. This seems to have been dropped since Edgy. I'm all for choosing default options, but not if it creates this much of a headache. Especially for people who want to virtualise Ubuntu and compare it to Windows. -- defaultdepth not persistant after install https://launchpad.net/bugs/79254 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
