I also have this problem with an IBM Thinkpad T21 laptop, savage video driver. I have been providing information about the problem in this bug report:
http://www.marryus.org/cityweddings.htm How do I switch from savage to the vesa module? Is it just a case of replacing "savage" with "vesa" in xorg.conf? -- X.org does not initialize screen on IBM T20 https://launchpad.net/bugs/33617 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs