Ah, it turns out the reason why that workaround fails is because the i810 driver's been discontinued. I can get K/Ubuntu to boot with the Vesa driver (id est, insert
Driver "vesa" into the Section "Device" part of the xorg.conf file) Therefore, this is almost certainly a regression in the xserver-xorg- video-intel driver. At least, my problem is. -- Ubuntu Desktop 8.1.0 does't load - hangs with black screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291675 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs