Comment 33 for bug 565407

(@weskey5644: the ability to upgrade between distributions is a feature of Ubuntu, therefore it should work and be maintained, regardless of a popularly-conceived best practice. Personally I have neither the time nor the bandwidth to do so.
Also, the garbled resolutions I am experiencing occur at the splash screen, long before X is loaded, and so X.org's safe graphics mode isn't in play at that stage. Sure, may not be a kernel thing, I don't really have the knowledge to tell. But, it's something that's never happened all the while I've been using ATI drivers from their website - over 3 years now.)