According to this Debian bug-report http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=398948
the issue affects the 2.6.17 and some later kernel builds. -- [Edgy] 5 white blinking stripes when booting on i810 laptop https://launchpad.net/bugs/64666 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs