Comment 2 for bug 280159

I can confirm a similar problem with 2 NVidia Geforce GTX 280 in SLI configuration. The problem occurs with kernels 2.6.27-6 and 2.6.27-5 as well as 2.6.27-4. When using the splash kernel-paramter (v86d is installed), the screen turns black shortly after the booting of the kernel starts and stays black. In the beginning there is still some hard-disk activity for some time, but the screen just stays black. I hoped for X to show up after waiting some time, but this did not happen. In the end the system seems to be running properly, apart from the issue that there is no real graphics output.

A workaround for now is to remove the splash parameter from the grub configuration and so booting without the eye-candy of the splash-screen.