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Hello all,
I'm struggling with a problem that looks quite similar. About my computer: A Thinkpad T61, Ubuntu 8.10, Nvidia graphics card (how can I find which number exactly?). I also used the
Here's what happens: For a long time, Ubuntu 8.10 worked just fine. Then, probably at about the same time as it happend for Chris, the computer switched to text mode at startup. The last message that appears is "Setting advanced power mode..." (as above). Then the screen goes black, after some 10 seconds the same message appears again, it goes black again (some kind of look?) and after that, the low graphics mode screen appears giving me some kind of error message and asking me whether I want to reconfigure graphics mode. Then, when I start with the default configuration, my computer works fine, just that it isn't using the Nvidia 177 driver anymore but the open source driver (which doesn't work with external screen and seams not to support sleep mode).
When I switch back to Nvidia, sometimes the computer starts just fine, sometimes the described problem appear again.
One more point: I have reinstalled the whole system last weekend (four days ago). Since then, I several times rebooted my system without the problem being there. It does not appear systematically, but I did not yet find out what causes this bug to appear and what not.
Attached my /var/log/Xorg.0.log