It looks like this bug is affecting me too. I have the same graphics chip. I've tried Leann Ogasawara's v1 kernel with no change. (and various other things, chronicled in bug 499399.)
Blacklisting viafb means I can now boot with a Lucid kernel (after 3 1/2 months of frustration). Many thanks to whoever discovered the blacklist viafb option. I thought I was going to have to find another distro, which I didn't actually want to do. -- Computer freezes during boot and during viafb loading https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/539020 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