I now tried with vesa and everything was fine, then changed back to via (mII 12000) and it worked too...? I think, there was a kernel update since I first filed this bug...
The only change to the system is that this time I had to use my keyboard as my mouse broke - but sure shouldn't make a difference. -- removing last video from totem crashes system https://launchpad.net/bugs/54143 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs