According to this, your laptop is probably using an ATI radeon 9200: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00059853&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=&product=389767
Looking through the X radeon/dpms bugs on freedesktop.org, it seems there are lots of reports of blanking issues on startup, however none exactly match our issue. I've noticed that after letting synaptic update everything, I'm no longer able to reproduce the bug (even with the LiveCD, which is odd). -- [feisty] X Display in Power-Saving mode on Startup, LiveCD only https://launchpad.net/bugs/83726 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
