Aha - I just stumbled upon bug #982889 (X trying to start before plymouth has finished using the drm driver). It certainly looks like this bug could be related.
It would have been nice if you guys had pointed me to that bug before now - oh well. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1161371 Title: X server sometimes fails to start on MacBook Air 5,2: no screens found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1161371/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
