When I first installed Ubuntu 5.10 on an old laptop, I had to work around a VGA driver bug. To get through the text-based install process, I had to pass the vga=771 boot parameter, so the system could work with my laptop display. The problem was that this parameter saved the text system, but screwed up the GNOME GUI. Once I got through the install, I jumped into a text-based terminal, went into the GRUB menu.lst file and took out the vga=771 parameters from all the kernel boot options at the bottom of the file (all the stuff that wasn’t commented out).
Fine, great, except that almost every time I get Breezy Ubuntu updates, the original vga=771 boot parameter is restored, and I have to go through the removal process all over again! Does anyone know why the original *optional* parameter I specified during install is being restored by the Breezy updates–and how I can prevent it from happening again?
