Ben, Thanks for the subtle clues. Someone (me!) had uncommented the "blacklist matrox-base" from blacklist-framebuffer; some releases ago, presumably in a vain attempt to get splash to work (which it has never done on this card). Mea culpa!
Please close the ticket, "user error". Thanks, -jonathan -- Gutsy kernel lockup / video corruption with matroxfb https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/118813 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
