I seem to have encountered the same bug when trying the 6.10 i386 live CD. If I leave the graphics options as default then the splash screen appears albeit with a green horizontal line near the middle. After the progress bar reaches the end, it freezes while still inside the splash screen.
If I use F4 to change the graphics mode to anything higher then the default, then instead of freezing in the splash screen it will display a message saying X failed to start, if I ignore this warning and continue I am dumped at the black screen with a blinking cursor. My specs are: Athlon64 3200+ Asus A8N-SLI Ati Radeon X800GTO 1GB DDR400 SATA hard drives -- [edgy][regression][ati] usplash freezes system when starting X https://launchpad.net/bugs/67487 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
