A question for you three (Timo, Habbit, and stuartmarsden): Do you have framebuffer enabled with VGA extended resolution (thanks Habbit for remembering)?
Look at your Grub configuration (/boot/grub/menu.lst; see if there is a 'VGA=' in the definitions; the 'defoptions line is a good candidate, but please report the other places as well. For the record, this is what mine says: # defoptions=splash pci=assign-busses vga=792, and on each bootable kernel: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-10-generic root=UUID=a152bcaa-2553-464e- b2c4-023fce8dc5ed ro splash pci=assign-busses vga=792 So I am using 1024x768 resolution for the console. -- Feisty crashes after grub if usplash enabled (amd64) https://launchpad.net/bugs/86666 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs