The problem was actually a combination of buggy 2.6.20 kernel + mobile GPUs do not play well with framebuffer drivers such as "nv", yet also "vesa" failed. I installed nVidia's driver (as I do in Slackware as well) and all is well. Custom 2.6.21 kernel + nVidia.
But, even though vanilla 2.6.20 sources worked in Slackware, Ubuntu's 2.6.20 kernel does not.. -- Ubuntu only doesn't like apic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120648 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
