Comment 21 for bug 246269

Thanks Leann! Took your suggestion and installed the latest kernel (and re-installed usplash and the corresponding ubuntu theme package; I think I already had v86d installed manually before)

As the system went down, got the usual red screen with white bars I saw when I had usplash installed. In any case, was more interested to see what would happen as the system came back up: I didn't get a completely blank screen (instead got a message from a monitor something along the lines of it not supporting that display mode/resolution). But more importantly, proceeded to gdm!!! :)

On another good note, also I'm no longer seeing the VBE-related errors in the dmesg logs

fahim@fahim-gx280:~$ uname -a
Linux fahim-gx280 2.6.27-1-server #1 SMP Sun Aug 24 00:04:57 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

fahim@fahim-gx280:~$ dmesg | grep vesa
[ 3.170630] uvesafb: Intel Corporation, Intel(r)915G/915GV/910GL Graphics Controller, Hardware Version 0.0, OEM: Intel(r)915G/915GV/910GL Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS, VBE v3.0
[ 3.180005] uvesafb: VBIOS/hardware supports DDC2 transfers
[ 3.190005] uvesafb: monitor limits: vf = 75 Hz, hf = 80 kHz, clk = 140 MHz
[ 3.190005] uvesafb: scrolling: redraw
[ 3.200006] uvesafb: framebuffer at 0xc0000000, mapped to 0xf8880000, using 7872k, total 7872k
[ 34.440635] uvesafb: mode switch failed (eax=0x14f, err=0). Trying again with default timings.
[ 34.610635] uvesafb: mode switch failed (eax=0x14f, err=0). Trying again with default timings.
fahim@fahim-gx280:~$

I'll try rebooting and/or cold starting the system a couple of times just in case...