Comment 62 for bug 564559

OK. I was unaware that "nomodeset" was deprecated. Fair enough.

*.modeset=0 does not work for either the nvidia or radeon hardware. I actually tried this first before settling on nomodeset.

I do not see how this bug is marked fixed. It seems that requiring a user to add special boot options (when the display does not even work) and depending upon PPA is not optimal.

Fixed to me would mean that the detection of problematic hardware happens automatically and the appropriate boot option are added transparently to the user. Or, that the 2.6.34 kernel updates get backported into the LTS kernel (this is approach redhat takes).

There are other bugs referencing this problem that are marked as duplicate. The general description here (dual-link DVI modes are broken) is appropriate. And this bug is not limited to radeon, but also nvidia (I have not tested intel, matrox, etc.). Also, the title suggests it is a pre-release issue. Lucid released a month ago. The bug persists.

Don't get me wrong. I like the PPA tools. And I am glad that a knowledgeable user can add boot options. I just think that these things are not fixes per se. They are tips to help a user deal with broken product.