I had the same problem as Camilo Gonzalez in post #5, on a netbook with Atom 270 cpu and Intel 954M graphics.
Solved by booting with nomodesdet option from the grub menu to get a low resolution GUI and then installing the xserver-xorg-video-intel package.
All works very well now.
I had the same problem as Camilo Gonzalez in post #5, on a netbook with Atom 270 cpu and Intel 954M graphics. xorg-video- intel package.
Solved by booting with nomodesdet option from the grub menu to get a low resolution GUI and then installing the xserver-
All works very well now.