I figured out that in feisty a (quite) old version of the intel driver was installed by default; while there is a newer driver actually available using apt-get.
I updated from 1.7 to 1.9 and this problem went away. -- vbetool hangs on dpms off https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/110826 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
