Comment 1 for bug 1212972

FWIW:

When I start with 3.8.0-27-generic in safemode, and then start using failsafeX, it sort of works:
It's really slow, the screen now uses 1024x768, and there are visual bugs. But I get graphics.

Example of visual bugs:
* Along the left side of the screen there's a column of black (where the launcher would be, but I've set it to only show when I move the mouse there)
* Now I can start Virtualbox! But in Virtualbox, me Windows installation also shows black areas sometimes - e.g. large parts of the UI of Internet Explorer is blacked out