Sorry, I failed to properly guide this bloke into filing a proper bug report. My appologies.
The card he used is as follows (lspci | grep VGA): 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15) Editing the xorg.conf and lowering the resolutions did fix the issue, so the problem is clearly the autodetect which uses too high resolutions by default. -- Auto-detect from live-cd ubuntu 6.10 isn't working correctly https://launchpad.net/bugs/82132 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
