I had the same bug in my Asus Laptop, just look here in the release notes of
ubuntu 7.10 in the ubuntu website, there is a link to a thread where the people
explained some workarounds that, at least for me, worked very well and I dont
have the problem anymore. You basically have to do the
I confirm also this bug in my laptop (asus f5r, video card ati Xpress
200M, 1280x800, 60Hz). Same problem as the other guys, that means,
without boot splash screen during start and shutdown of the system, and
also the really slow boot(as mentioned by sirwitti). But I used the same
workaround
