I have encountered the same problem on my IBM Thinkpad X40 after upgrading Karmic to Lucid Lynx. My display adapter : description: VGA compatible controller product: 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device
I can confirm that enabling KMS fixed the freezing and now I am able to boot in a normal manner. My setup is a bit different though, the i915.modeset=1 gets passed to the kernel by GRUB while booting. This can be acheived by adding 915.modeset=1 to the grub boot options after pressing 'e' in the GRUB menu. To make these settings persistent edit /etc/defaults/grub and run grub-update. -- [i855] Lucid Freeze shortly after X startup (needs KMS blacklist?) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/511001 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
