Comment 3 for bug 38433

I remembered that I had an extra video card in my computer, and I had a hunch that Ubuntu was detecting the wrong video card. I plugged the monitor into the old video card, and sure enough ,there was my desktop, in its 640x480 goodness.

This is a MAJOR inconsistancy, as the main consoles and boot graphics are on the main (AGP) card (reported by the BIOS I believe), yet X starts on an antiquated PCI (not PCI-X) card that's been ignored so far, and created a great deal of confusion.

Ubuntu should detect the main video card as reported by the BIOS, or at the very least use the same output device throughout the whole session.