Comment 10 for bug 249037

Yep; upgraded to Intrepid from Hardy just a couple of days ago. (I too have the 915 chipset)

A bit drastic, but I've tried this a couple of times, and the way I've resorted to consistently getting an actually usable UI (there's only so much I can do with ssh) is by removing usplash

sudo apt-get remove usplash

Waiting for an eventual fix, but in the meantime I can survive seeing semi-coherent text go by without having a fancy boot splash screen...