Here's the dmesg output. see file attached. These are the lines that look to me to be video related, and they don't say anything unusual to me: /snip/ [ 24.140033] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 [ 24.140042] console [tty0] enabled /snip/ [ 25.865200] Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0 /snip/ [ 78.380016] Linux agpgart interface v0.102 /snip/ [ 79.276752] agpgart: Detected SiS chipset - id:1840 [ 79.291599] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd0000000 /snip/ [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.24-8-generic (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-1ubuntu2)) #1 SMP Thu Feb 14 20:40:45 UTC 2008 (Ubuntu 2.6.24-8.14-generic) [ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000eff0000 (usable) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000eff0000 - 000000000eff8000 (ACPI data) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000eff8000 - 000000000f000000 (ACPI NVS) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] 0MB HIGHMEM available. [ 0.000000] 239MB LOWMEM available. [ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 61424) 0 entries of 256 used [ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges: [ 0.000000] DMA 0 -> 4096 [ 0.000000] Normal 4096 -> 61424 [ 0.000000] HighMem 61424 -> 61424 [ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node [ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges [ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 61424 [ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 61424 [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0 [ 0.000000] Normal zone: 447 pages used for memmap [ 0.000000] Normal zone: 56881 pages, LIFO batch:15 [ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap [ 0.000000] Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap [ 0.000000] DMI 2.3 present. [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP signature @ 0xC00FC390 checksum 0 [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000FC390, 0014 (r0 AMI ) [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 0EFF0000, 0028 (r1 AMIINT SiS730SX 1000 MSFT 100000B) [ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 0EFF0030, 0074 (r1 AMIINT SiS730SX 1000 MSFT 100000B) [ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 0EFF00B0, 2D2C (r1 SiS 730S 100 MSFT 100000B) [ 0.000000] ACPI: FACS 0EFF8000, 0040 [ 0.000000] ACPI: BIOS age (1997) fails cutoff (2000), acpi=force is required to enable ACPI [ 0.000000] ACPI: Disabling ACPI support [ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 10000000 (gap: 0f000000:f0fc0000) [ 0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 [ 0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000f0000 [ 0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 60945 [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.gz quiet splash -- [ 0.000000] Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic" [ 0.000000] mapped APIC to ffffb000 (011ec000) [ 0.000000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. [ 0.000000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. [ 0.000000] Initializing CPU#0 [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes) [ 0.000000] Detected 1294.287 MHz processor. [ 24.140033] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 [ 24.140042] console [tty0] enabled [ 24.140589] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) [ 24.141145] Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) [ 24.157911] Memory: 231460k/245696k available (2161k kernel code, 13676k reserved, 997k data, 364k init, 0k highmem) [ 24.157926] virtual kernel memory layout: [ 24.157927] fixmap : 0xfff4b000 - 0xfffff000 ( 720 kB) [ 24.157929] pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB) [ 24.157931] vmalloc : 0xcf800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 767 MB) [ 24.157933] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xceff0000 ( 239 MB) [ 24.157935] .init : 0xc041b000 - 0xc0476000 ( 364 kB) [ 24.157937] .data : 0xc031c5ed - 0xc0415dc4 ( 997 kB) [ 24.157939] .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc031c5ed (2161 kB) [ 24.157944] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. [ 24.158043] SLUB: Genslabs=11, HWalign=32, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=1, Nodes=1 [ 24.238059] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 2590.04 BogoMIPS (lpj=5180084) [ 24.238136] Security Framework initialized [ 24.238154] SELinux: Disabled at boot. [ 24.238204] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized [ 24.238216] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module. [ 24.238236] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 [ 24.238593] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383f9ff c1c3f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 24.238615] CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) [ 24.238619] CPU: L2 Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line) [ 24.238626] CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383f9ff c1c3f9ff 00000000 00000420 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 24.238650] Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000. [ 24.238684] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. [ 24.254635] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code [ 24.257114] Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed [ 24.257411] Early unpacking initramfs... done [ 24.800476] CPU0: AMD Duron(tm) Processor stepping 01 [ 24.800494] SMP motherboard not detected. [ 24.800500] Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation. [ 24.800629] Brought up 1 CPUs [ 24.800686] CPU0 attaching sched-domain: [ 24.800692] domain 0: span 01 [ 24.800695] groups: 01 [ 24.801248] net_namespace: 64 bytes [ 24.801272] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware [ 24.802227] Time: 22:14:17 Date: 03/01/08 [ 24.802385] NET: Registered protocol family 16 [ 24.802880] EISA bus registered [ 24.805587] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb01, last bus=1 [ 24.805597] PCI: Using configuration type 1 [ 24.805601] Setting up standard PCI resources [ 24.808369] ACPI: Interpreter disabled. [ 24.808386] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay [ 24.808458] pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled [ 24.808469] PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support... [ 24.808567] PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f7d80 [ 24.808572] PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0x6b44, dseg 0xf0000 [ 24.810467] PnPBIOS: 15 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 15 recorded by driver [ 24.810971] PCI: Probing PCI hardware [ 24.811001] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) [ 24.812724] PCI: Using IRQ router SIS [1039/0018] at 0000:00:01.0 [ 24.825980] NET: Registered protocol family 8 [ 24.825990] NET: Registered protocol family 20 [ 24.826240] AppArmor: AppArmor Filesystem Enabled [ 24.826374] system 00:01: iomem range 0x0-0x9fbff could not be reserved [ 24.826380] system 00:01: iomem range 0x9fc00-0x9ffff could not be reserved [ 24.826385] system 00:01: iomem range 0xf0000-0xfffff could not be reserved [ 24.826390] system 00:01: iomem range 0x100000-0xefeffff could not be reserved [ 24.826394] system 00:01: iomem range 0xeff0000-0xeff7fff could not be reserved [ 24.826399] system 00:01: iomem range 0xeff8000-0xeffffff could not be reserved [ 24.826406] system 00:01: iomem range 0xfffc0000-0xffffffff could not be reserved [ 24.827372] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:02.0 [ 24.827386] IO window: a000-afff [ 24.827394] MEM window: cfe00000-cfefffff [ 24.827400] PREFETCH window: bfc00000-cfcfffff [ 24.827423] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64 [ 24.827465] NET: Registered protocol family 2 [ 24.829960] Time: tsc clocksource has been installed. [ 24.862186] IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) [ 24.862650] TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) [ 24.862937] TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) [ 24.863248] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) [ 24.863254] TCP reno registered [ 24.874316] checking if image is initramfs... it is [ 25.859086] Freeing initrd memory: 7440k freed [ 25.860455] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) [ 25.860503] audit(1204409657.704:1): initialized [ 25.864315] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 [ 25.864531] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) [ 25.865077] io scheduler noop registered [ 25.865089] io scheduler anticipatory registered [ 25.865093] io scheduler deadline registered [ 25.865125] io scheduler cfq registered (default) [ 25.865200] Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0 [ 25.865895] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... [ 26.219550] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found [ 26.373969] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac [ 26.374143] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled [ 26.374368] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A [ 26.376689] 00:09: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A [ 26.377326] PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered [ 26.377335] PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:01.6 [ 26.377347] PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:01.1 [ 26.378898] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize [ 26.379077] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input0 [ 26.379347] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303,PNP0f13] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 [ 26.379762] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 [ 26.379775] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 [ 26.389943] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice [ 26.390259] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0 [ 26.390293] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 5 [ 26.390310] EISA: Detected 0 cards. [ 26.390318] cpuidle: using governor ladder [ 26.390322] cpuidle: using governor menu [ 26.390738] NET: Registered protocol family 1 [ 26.390829] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode [ 26.390928] registered taskstats version 1 [ 26.391085] Magic number: 0:557:248 [ 26.391203] hash matches device ttyw4 [ 26.393032] Freeing unused kernel memory: 364k freed [ 26.441804] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1 [ 26.879934] fuse init (API version 7.9) [ 26.939283] thermal: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_set_thermal_limit [ 27.586090] SCSI subsystem initialized [ 27.733876] sis900.c: v1.08.10 Apr. 2 2006 [ 27.734074] PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:01.1 [ 27.734096] PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:01.6 [ 27.734971] 0000:00:01.1: VIA 6103 PHY transceiver found at address 1. [ 27.743534] 0000:00:01.1: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default [ 27.747628] eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xcc00, IRQ 5, 00:0a:e6:25:29:39 [ 27.773925] libata version 3.00 loaded. [ 27.830283] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs [ 27.830353] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub [ 27.849699] usbcore: registered new device driver usb [ 27.877103] pata_sis 0000:00:00.1: version 0.5.2 [ 27.901408] scsi0 : pata_sis [ 27.921504] ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver [ 27.943927] scsi1 : pata_sis [ 27.944092] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xff00 irq 14 [ 27.944099] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xff08 irq 15 [ 28.105903] ata1.00: ATA-6: SAMSUNG SV2042H, PK100-13, max UDMA/100 [ 28.105915] ata1.00: 39865392 sectors, multi 16: LBA [ 28.113769] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 [ 28.178561] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M [ 28.197902] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 [ 28.449765] ata2.00: ATAPI: LITE-ON CD-RW SOHR-5239V, 2$0E, max UDMA/33 [ 28.637549] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33 [ 28.637908] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA SAMSUNG SV2042H PK10 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 28.639345] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM LITE-ON CD-RW SOHR-5239V 2$0E PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 28.639930] PCI: setting IRQ 3 as level-triggered [ 28.639941] PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 0000:00:01.2 [ 28.639955] PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 0000:00:01.3 [ 28.639992] ohci_hcd 0000:00:01.2: OHCI Host Controller [ 28.641296] ohci_hcd 0000:00:01.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 [ 28.641347] ohci_hcd 0000:00:01.2: irq 3, io mem 0xcfffc000 [ 28.699648] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 28.699704] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found [ 28.699726] hub 1-0:1.0: 3 ports detected [ 28.801584] PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 0000:00:01.3 [ 28.801606] PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 0000:00:01.2 [ 28.801645] ohci_hcd 0000:00:01.3: OHCI Host Controller [ 28.801701] ohci_hcd 0000:00:01.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 [ 28.801739] ohci_hcd 0000:00:01.3: irq 3, io mem 0xcfffd000 [ 28.859608] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 28.859665] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found [ 28.859685] hub 2-0:1.0: 3 ports detected [ 30.144731] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods [ 30.145076] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 39865392 512-byte hardware sectors (20411 MB) [ 30.145109] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [ 30.145114] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 30.145150] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 30.145277] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 39865392 512-byte hardware sectors (20411 MB) [ 30.145296] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [ 30.145300] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 30.145327] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 30.145337] sda:<4>Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods [ 30.157750] sda1 sda2 < sda5 > [ 30.175284] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk [ 30.187738] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/52x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray [ 30.187756] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 [ 30.187921] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 [ 30.194967] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 [ 30.195017] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5 [ 30.764774] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 [ 31.166356] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [ 31.166397] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. [ 31.610922] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 [ 31.644259] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A [ 31.918090] Registering unionfs 1.4 [ 31.918102] unionfs: debugging is not enabled [ 31.950465] loop: module loaded [ 32.212864] squashfs: version 3.3 (2007/10/31) Phillip Lougher [ 78.380016] Linux agpgart interface v0.102 [ 78.624626] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 [ 78.883444] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input2 [ 79.276752] agpgart: Detected SiS chipset - id:1840 [ 79.291599] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd0000000 [ 79.613179] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4 [ 80.237288] input: PS/2 Logitech Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input3 [ 80.268530] parport_pc 00:0c: reported by Plug and Play BIOS [ 80.268609] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] [ 81.696930] PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered [ 81.696942] PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:01.4 [ 81.792731] NET: Registered protocol family 17 [ 82.235312] gameport: Trident 4DWave is pci0000:00:01.4/gameport0, speed 2130kHz [ 82.582923] eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex [ 85.426350] NET: Registered protocol family 10 [ 85.426819] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions [ 87.993359] Adding 698788k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:698788k [ 88.534273] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team [ 95.667696] eth0: no IPv6 routers present