Since it sounds like the newer driver in Intrepid won't have this issue, I'm closing the bug report as fixed, but will open a task for hardy - if someone can identify what the fix was, we can SRU it.
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Released -- X starts with black screen / blue screen (i965G) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153188 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