I have met this problem on my newly installed Maverick on TP W510 as well.
kernel: [ 120.378208] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table at offset 0xFD80
kernel: [ 120.402133] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Couldn't find matching output script table
After grub, I can see shortly plymouth animation but after an error text "fb: conflicting fb hw usage nouveaufb vs VESA VGA - removing generic driver" shown up, plymouth is disappeared. Only black screen. However I can still get the xwindow with login screen. I am using kernel 2.6.35-27-generic-pae, and xserver-xorg-video-nouveau with version 1:0.0.16+git20100805+b96170a-0ubuntu1
I have met this problem on my newly installed Maverick on TP W510 as well.
kernel: [ 120.378208] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table at offset 0xFD80
kernel: [ 120.402133] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Couldn't find matching output script table
After grub, I can see shortly plymouth animation but after an error text "fb: conflicting fb hw usage nouveaufb vs VESA VGA - removing generic driver" shown up, plymouth is disappeared. Only black screen. However I can still get the xwindow with login screen. I am using kernel 2.6.35- 27-generic- pae, and xserver- xorg-video- nouveau with version 1:0.0.16+ git20100805+ b96170a- 0ubuntu1