Ok, after finding one of the dupes that was having this issue on the same machine I'm using where I couldn't reproduce it I looked into it a bit more. It looks like having vga16fb loaded (which I had blacklisted) is what's causing the problem and I can reproduce it on a livecd.
Ok, after finding one of the dupes that was having this issue on the same machine I'm using where I couldn't reproduce it I looked into it a bit more. It looks like having vga16fb loaded (which I had blacklisted) is what's causing the problem and I can reproduce it on a livecd.