Comment 12 for bug 296276

I have the same problem after an upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10 on a Acer Aspire 3000. Here is the result of lshw:

$ sudo lshw -C display
  *-display UNCLAIMED
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter
       vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 cap_list
       configuration: latency=0

$ uname -a
Linux john-laptop 2.6.27-9-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 20 21:57:00 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

I have also attached the Xorg.conf and other log files warren was asked for in case they help.