Comment 8 for bug 705078

And to be clear (probably should have reread before posting).

* Natty live cds from a week ago worked, but there haven't been any live cds up until a few days ago

* I was able to successfully install 10.10 and 10.04 on both pieces of hardware without workarounds. Same as the natty builds from ~1 week ago. It's very recent that I have to use xforcevesa/nomodeset