I can confirm this behavior as well, I have a Celeron 2GHz+Intel 82845 motherboard on my desktop During bootup/shutdown, all I can see is a blinking cursor on top left corner on my screen. if I wait for some time (5 minutes typically), GDM comes up fine. On Kubuntu, KDM never comes up and the PC freezes at blinking cursor. Same scenario is observed even if I boot from the (K)Ubuntu Edgy CD. by the way dapper works fine. Thanks!
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