Is it possible to try booting again with 'acpi=off' in your kernel boot options? That allowed X to work for me with the latest Edgy kernel, which is 2.6.17-10 at the time of writing.
-- X server garbled display https://launchpad.net/bugs/54812 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs