It does look like a kernel issue.
I just booted with an earlier kernel: uname -a Linux parapithecus 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 19:00:28 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
and it works. that is, i took the vesa line out of xorg.conf, and it doesn't crash this kernel.
I'll try it with that upstream kernel, probably tomorrow.
thanks!
It does look like a kernel issue.
I just booted with an earlier kernel:
uname -a
Linux parapithecus 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 19:00:28 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
and it works. that is, i took the vesa line out of xorg.conf, and it doesn't crash this kernel.
I'll try it with that upstream kernel, probably tomorrow.
thanks!