Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop

2010-01-14 Thread daves111
I suppose I could try the 3 or 4 kernels that went from working to freezing. - Original Message - From: "Geir Ove Myhr" To: Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 3:31 PM Subject: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop I'm puzzled... There doesn't seem to be any rel

Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop

2010-01-12 Thread daves111
I used the 800 for a while and noticed that in firefox, my screen kept dimming and there was more wait time while loading new pages. seems like the 800 isn't working as well. On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 22:49 +, Geir Ove Myhr wrote: > 800 kernel is now available. > -- [i945g] freezes shortly after

Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop

2010-01-12 Thread daves111
I downloaded and installed 800 ... and it did not freeze. Dave On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 22:49 +, Geir Ove Myhr wrote: > 800 kernel is now available. > -- [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500686 You received this bug notification because you are a mem

Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop

2010-01-10 Thread Geir Ove Myhr
It seems that there is something wrong with the kernel package or the installation of them. Have you tried the suggested workaround which is to install it again (with dpkg -i) before removing it? If you are unsure which kernel is running at any point, the command `uname -a` will tell you which one

Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop

2010-01-09 Thread daves111
when I deleted 499 here are the terminal details (don't know if this is of interest to you, but ...): daves...@presario:~$ sudo dpkg -P linux-image-2.6.31-rc6-945test499-git6a719e0 [sudo] password for daves111: (Reading database ... 329968 files and directories currently installed.) Removing linu

Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop

2010-01-09 Thread daves111
Don't know if this is of any interest to you; this is what it said when I went to delete 300. I am copying these off my terminal program. Dave daves...@presario:~$ sudo dpkg -l | > grep linux-image [sudo] password for daves111: pi linux-image-2.6.28-11-generic 2.6.28-11.42 Lin

Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop

2010-01-09 Thread daves111
Well, 799 didn't freeze either; it said it was 799 when it gave a choice of which kernel to use. Take a look at my previous email to see if it did something strange when it installed the 799 kernel. I hope this doesn't confuse things; it looked like we were narrowing it down. Dave On Sat, 2010-01-

Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop

2010-01-09 Thread daves111
I am going to try this one, 799, next; 300 and 499 did not freeze. I thought you might be interested in the details shown in terminal as I did sudo dpkg -i *.deb on 799 Dave daves...@presario:~/Desktop$ dir 10126.pdf linux-image-2.6.31-rc6-945test799-gite3b2415_gomyhr1_amd64.deb daves

Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop

2010-01-09 Thread Geir Ove Myhr
> This is great! That means that there is something between 2.6.31-rc6 > and 2.6.31-rc7 that introduced the freezes. I will see if I can get > some test kernels built for you that has only some of those changes. > That way we may find the exact commit that introduced the freezes. I have compiled a

Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop

2010-01-08 Thread Geir Ove Myhr
> After a number of hours of testing kernels, it didn't seem to make as > much difference the order shown on > http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ but, rather the date that > it was last modified; everthing up to 14 Aug worked Oh.. the order on that list is purely alphabetical. There is

Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop

2010-01-07 Thread daves111
Well ... the reason some of the kernels weren't showing up was I was forgetting to install them - forgot a step. After a number of hours of testing kernels, it didn't seem to make as much difference the order shown on http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ but, rather the date that it was

Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop

2010-01-07 Thread daves111
ok, here's what I've done, so far: 2.6.30 020630 of Jun 10 '09 worked fine, but none of the 2.6.31's have worked so far; I tried a number of them. I downloaded several of them, but only one 31 would show up labled "-generic"; I deleted the 31 that showed up when I did "dpkg -l" then I downloaded 31

Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop

2010-01-06 Thread Geir Ove Myhr
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:39 PM, daves111 wrote: > here is some more info that may help: installed 9.04and it worked fine > with kernel 2.6.28-11 generic; then I updated which gave me kernel > 2.6.28-17 and it still works in gnome; then I tried kernel 2.6.31-15 > generic and it froze like before as

Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop

2010-01-06 Thread daves111
here is some more info that may help: installed 9.04and it worked fine with kernel 2.6.28-11 generic; then I updated which gave me kernel 2.6.28-17 and it still works in gnome; then I tried kernel 2.6.31-15 generic and it froze like before as did 2.6.31-14 (I think). How do I get rid of the other c

Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop

2010-01-05 Thread Geir Ove Myhr
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:29 PM, daves111 wrote: > I upgraded to Lucid; I still had a list of kernels showing before I get to > login; I tried several including 2.6.32-9-generic but those that went on to > the desktop here is what happened: I could move the mouse around the screen > until I hovered

Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop

2010-01-05 Thread daves111
called) that showed ... then it would freeze and have to be shut off. On the 64-bit, then, ... am I right in using ubuntu 64 for my computer? Dave - Original Message - From: "Geir Ove Myhr" To: Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945

Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop

2010-01-04 Thread Geir Ove Myhr
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:13 PM, daves111 wrote: > ok, I will test Lucid for you. Is there a chance that a problem is that > I don't have a real 64 bit amd? Nope, the name amd64 is there only for historical reasons. The platform was invented by AMD while Intel had another 64-bit architecture (lpia)

Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop

2010-01-04 Thread daves111
ok, I will test Lucid for you. Is there a chance that a problem is that I don't have a real 64 bit amd? my documentation shows that I have a "intel celeron d-360 3.46GHz 64-bit processor". "System Monitor" shows Processor: Intel Celeron D cpu 3.46GHz. Should I be using the 64 bit version of unbuntu

Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop

2010-01-04 Thread daves111
27;ll just wait until it gets figured out or maybe try lucid when it comes available. Thanks, Dave - Original Message - From: "Geir Ove Myhr" To: Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 5:37 PM Subject: Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop >

Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop

2010-01-01 Thread Geir Ove Myhr
> Geir Ove Myhr, I tried kernel v2.6.33-rc and exactly the same thing > happened: desktop loaded and I could move the mouse around until I moved I assume you were trying to do the following test: * Does it help to use a recent drm-intel-next kernel from this archive? (more info at KernelTeam/Main

Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop

2010-01-01 Thread daves111
Geir Ove Myhr, I tried kernel v2.6.33-rc and exactly the same thing happened: desktop loaded and I could move the mouse around until I moved it to the top over a hardrive error icon at the top (my second drive is bad) . I will attempt to enter this on your table on the page you set up Dave On Fri,

Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop

2010-01-01 Thread daves111
I'll try to get to it this afternoon - thanks for your help. Dave - Original Message - From: "Geir Ove Myhr" To: Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 12:12 PM Subject: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop This comment goes to bug 400934, bug 451518, bug 475429, bug