I can confirm that I've got the exact same problem. X tries to start, the screen flashes some horizontal lines and then I'm left at a black screen w/ an "_" in the upper left hand side. Unable to switch to any other tty and must hard power off or log in via SSH to shut down cleanly.
I can confirm that I've got the exact same problem. X tries to start, the screen flashes some horizontal lines and then I'm left at a black screen w/ an "_" in the upper left hand side. Unable to switch to any other tty and must hard power off or log in via SSH to shut down cleanly.
Using kernel 2.6.15-15-686
IBM Thinkpad T21
Thanks!