Just found a work around for 8.10. The Xorg "vesa" driver in 8.10 is not working either for my SM710 card, but the kernel VESA frame buffer driver works, by appending vga=0x317 to kernel boot arguments. This will give me a 1024x768 virtual console.
Then in Xorg.conf, specify "fbdev" as the driver, and X should work again. -- Silicon Motion X driver fails to correctly restore text mode; requires modprobe vga16fb fbcon https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/144178 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
