On Wednesday January 16 2008 16:00:16 I wrote: > Tony, that link was very enlightening. Those are pretty much my exact > symptoms. I will do some more poking in that direction when I return > home and report my findings. > > Thanks again to all. > > -pd- Well, I tried a few of the suggested fixes in the ubuntuforums thread linked to from the bug you pointed me to. Specifically, I enabled fbcon and vesafb in my /etc/initramfs-tools/modules file and unblacklisted vesafb in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffers. No joy. Then it occurred to (stupid old) me that I'm seeing boot messages when I start up, but not when I shut down (the monitor goes to sleep as soon as KDE stops). Ergo, it seems to me that it's not until KDM starts that I lose my other consoles. I noticed in my kdm.log the line "(EE) intel(0): I830 Vblank Pipe Setup Failed 0" Might that be related? -pd-