Fedora 9 Live seems to be somewhat similar to Intrepid in the X department. And it boots OK on that machine. There's no xorg.conf anywhere I can find (huh?), but the attached logfile will show what combination of things works. Hope it's helpful. Can't use Intrepid on this box as things stand.
** Attachment added: "Fedora9_Xorg.0.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18623830/Fedora9_Xorg.0.log -- [Gutsy, Hardy] Black screen with mouse pointer on i830, intel driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/207881 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs