I've also seen this bug, on a Gateway ML-3109 laptop. I found one more interesting thing in my testing: if I start the X server alone, with no startup script, it eventually displays normally (traditional "grey" background, X cursor) after about 8-10 minutes. It also stops eating CPU at this point. I've tried starting clients against it when it reaches this state, but they seem to fail.
** Attachment added: "lspci-vvnn" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9727893/lspci-vvnn -- [RC410] Xpress 200m with pci id 1002:5a62 and Linux 2.6.22 - X will not start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/144297 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs