Behavior persists in Feisty Herd4 LiveCD. Additionally, I am now getting the same behavior on different hardware as well -- my HP zx5078CL (zx5000 series) laptop. This is occuring with the laptop's LCD display.
Attaching lspci and dmidcode of laptop ** Attachment added: "Laptop's lspci -vvn" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6466753/lspci%20-vvn -- [feisty] X Display in Power-Saving mode on Startup, LiveCD only https://launchpad.net/bugs/83726 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs