{"id":165,"date":"2007-09-01T17:07:03","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T00:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanorser.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2007-09-01T17:07:03","modified_gmt":"2007-09-02T00:07:03","slug":"20070901-new-failsafe-graphics-mode-for-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/01\/20070901-new-failsafe-graphics-mode-for-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"2007\/09\/01  New Failsafe Graphics Mode For Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow this sounds Great!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"generaltitle\">\n<p class=\"title\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/hardware\/07\/09\/01\/201200.shtml\"> \t\t\tNew Failsafe Graphics Mode For Ubuntu<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"details\">  \t \t<strong>Posted by \t \tkdawson  \ton Saturday September 01, @07:51PM<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>from the <strong>just-light-the-pixels-please<\/strong> dept.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">\n<p class=\"topic\"> \t\t \t\t \t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/search.pl?tid=196\"> \t\t\t\t<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/search.pl?tid=106\" class=\"topic2\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\"> \t\t\tianare sends us to Ars Technica for news of the <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/journals\/linux.ars\/2007\/08\/29\/ubuntu-xorg-maintainer-demonstrates-bulletproof-x\">Ubuntu Xorg BulletProof-X feature<\/a>, coming soon to a 7.10 (Gutsy) build near you. <em>&#8220;It provides a failsafe mode that will ensure that users <a href=\"http:\/\/people.ubuntu.com\/%7Ebryce\/BulletProofX\/\">never have to manually configure their graphics hardware<\/a> settings from the command line. If Xorg fails to start,the failsafe mode will initiate with minimalistic settings, low resolution, and a limited number of colors. The failsafe mode also automatically runs Ubuntu&#8217;s new GTK-based display configuration utility so that users can easily test various display settings and choose a configuration that will work properly with their hardware.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow this sounds Great! New Failsafe Graphics Mode For Ubuntu Posted by kdawson on Saturday September 01, @07:51PM from the just-light-the-pixels-please dept. ianare sends us to Ars Technica for news of the Ubuntu Xorg BulletProof-X feature, coming soon to a 7.10 (Gutsy) build near you. &#8220;It provides a failsafe mode that will ensure that users [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}