I havent answered earlier since I am no big fan of plain "me too" comments. But here it comes. Me too!
I have a radoen 9600XT, AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 1 GB RAM, samsung syncmaster 172x display and the black screen problem. I tried sloggers suggestion, but without luck and basicly see the same as Quash does. [171795571.964000] ata3: disabling port [171795554.964000] usb 1-1: device not accepting address 2, error -71 ... after a coumple of minutes.. black screen and no possible ways of changing via crtl+alt+f1 -- [edgy][regression][ati] Black screen and consoles https://launchpad.net/bugs/67487 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs