Comment 2 for bug 267115

(Update from bug originator)

I tried the Intrepid Alpha 6 and got the same result. The X server hangs shortly after blanking the screen and putting up the initial mouse cursor.

I'm currently running the VIA proprietary drivers on Ubuntu Hardy. That, plus the original VESA X.org drivers worked OK on this HP-2133 Mininote laptop. I'm including some of the output from the Xorg.0.log file on Hardy to better document the chipset, etc, within this laptop:

(II) Module vbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.4.0.90, module version = 1.1.0
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 2.0
(II) VIA(0): VESA BIOS detected
(II) VIA(0): VESA VBE Version 3.0
(II) VIA(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 32768 kB
(II) VIA(0): VESA VBE OEM: VIA N3364^M

(II) VIA(0): VESA VBE OEM Software Rev: 1.0
(II) VIA(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor:
(II) VIA(0): VESA VBE OEM Product:
(II) VIA(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev:
(II) VIA(0): MapBase = b78d2000, MmioBase=fc000000
(II) VIA(0): RegCR08 = 0, RegCR09=4f
(--) VIA(0): Chipset: "P4M900"
(--) VIA(0): Chipset Rev.: 0
(**) VIA(0): Option "ActiveDevice" "LCD,CRT"
(**) VIA(0): Option "DisplayHardwareLayout" "LCD"
(**) VIA(0): Option "PanelID" "3"
(**) VIA(0): Option "NoDDCValue"
(**) VIA(0): Option "VideoOnDevice" "LCD"
(**) VIA(0): Option "ForceLCD"
(==) VIA(0): Not using video BIOS to set modes
(**) VIA(0): Option: Not using DDC probed value to set HorizSync & VertRefresh
(II) VIA(0): MergedFB mode forced off.
(**) VIA(0): Active Device is LCD,CRT.
(**) VIA(0): Display Hardware Layout is LCD

(--) VIA(0): mapping framebuffer @ 0xd0000000 with size 0x8000000
(==) VIA(0): Write-combining range (0xd0000000,0x8000000)
(--) VIA(0): Frame buffer start: 0xaf64d000, free start: 0x3c0000 end: 0x800000\
0
(--) VIA(0): mapping MMIO @ 0xfc000000 with size 0x9000
(--) VIA(0): mapping BitBlt MMIO @ 0xfc200000 with size 0x200000
(II) VIA(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is 0x0000
(EE) VIA(0): Couldn't open "/dev/video2"
(II) VIA(0): VIAScreenInit : V4L Disabled : fd2 = -1
(II) VIA(0): [drm] Detect H5s1 chipset: 000a chipid: 3371

I can get more data on request.