Comment 125 for bug 1685442

Thanks @Ryan for the post. I'm not sure in this case that a bisection would be the most effective cure. There must be many many legacy Dell and other machines that are affected but we never know because people give up on the install. I think the suggestion (see somewhere above) of defaulting to having the workaround "Video=SVIDEO-1:d" enabled by default would be much more useful. The probable minority of users who do need to use SVIDEO could be dealt with through release note information and pointed to a legacy driver.

As an enthusiastic and fervent champion of Ubuntu I cannot emphasize enough the negatives a fraught install/upgrade process for non-IT users inflicts upon the reputation of the project. Far better to have a few non-working features than to alienate a whole section of users with legacy machines. After all, is Ubuntu not supposed to be "Great for use with legacy machines."?? My experience rendered a working system on 16.04 LTS totally unusable by the automatic upgrade to 18.04 LTS. I am surely not alone!!!??