I'm having lots of trouble with 11.04.
Note: everything used to work beautifully on 10.10 for me.
I first upgraded and ran into all the problem below, then reinstalled clean and still have the same issues.
1. Terminal screen is unreadable after grub menu.
The screen is all white and text is garbage looking.
My graphics card is an nvidia fx5200.
If I edit the boot option for linux and remove the line
'set gfxpayload = $linux_gfx_mode', the terminal looks normal again.
2. Unity or Compiz or both are broken for me.
Regardless of whether I fix the issue in 1 or leave it there, after booting into X11 my desktop looks like it is blinking. I think my unity keeps restarting. If I disable compiz and use meta city the screen is stable but I have no menus making it useless.
NOTE: I didn't explicitly install any nvidia drivers, not sure if it did it install it automatically as part of the isntallation.
I don't care for Unity (even though it looks kinda nice). I just want my X11 working again with HW acceleration. I am happy to go back to a working gnome except I don't know how.
After the upgrade, I was able to switch my driver from nvidia to vesa in xorg.conf and get something usable (but horribly slow), I think it was classic and not unity. However a fresh isntall has a stub for xorg.conf with nothing much in it.
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If all else fails, I will reinstall 10.10 and wait for a more stable 11 release.
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Update:
Things aren't as horrible as I thought.
I used to tick automatic login which took it straight to unity which meant I ran into 2. and made this version unusable.
If I untick this option on installation I can at least switch to classic and use my desktop.
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