Comment 11 for bug 144410

I'm having the same issue on a Compaq C555NR laptop (Intel Integrated 945) - a fresh install of hardy displays a blank brown screen upon logon. GNOME failsafe does the same thing.

When I ran displayconfig-gtk from the failsafe terminal, I see two "Monitor 1" and 1 "Monitor 2" despite only having one monitor. Resolution settings are bugged, and "default monitor" has an erratic behavior when selected.

I'm running Ubuntu off of a 8GB SDHC card, and the only workaround I've found to actually get into gnome so far was to boot from a machine with an NVIDIA graphics card, (uncertain of what else was done aside installing basic NVIDIA drivers), and then booting it back up on the bugged machine. This however seems to have resulted in OpenGL/wine issues relating to libgl, as well as some other displayconfig-gtk issues.