Darxus, Please try this before you buy a new computer:
My graphics performance seems a bit sluggish at times (but I also have a slow network). My system is stable with a 1680x1050 resolution on 82845G/GL. Crashes have pretty much stopped. Every once in a while my system freezes when I try to log on, but that is workable for me. Google Earth also works. I use the the Brian Rogers kernel linux-image-2.6.34-v9patch and Stefan Glasenhardt's driver xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.12.0+git20100712~glasen~ppa1 and also his libraries libdrm2 and libdrm-intel 2.4.21~glasen~ppa5. Both are available from their PPAs. https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-fixes https://launchpad.net/~glasen/+archive/intel-driver I am also going to look into Tim's suggestions but I have been using this combination for some time now. Good luck, Felix On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Tim Hallett <541...@bugs.launchpad.net>wrote: > Darxus, > > Have you tried the following, in order, exactly? Somehow, I doubt it > because this actually works. > 1. In Synaptic package manager, go to Linux, select the item that just says > "Linux", this will download and install the latest stable Ubuntu kernel, > which will install without reformatting your drive or killing your network > connectivity (as is the case with the Rogers' patch, not being fully > implemented for Ubuntu, no I do not want to re-compile the rt2870 drivers). > This by itself stops 95% of the crashes. Just try this for a while, if you > still have occasional crashes, do the following. > 2. Install the 855-fix at https://launchpad.net/~glasen/+archive/855gm-fix, > if you do not know how to install a new repository, well there are detailed > directions at that site. Either one works, but I use the experimental. > 3. Install the Mesa fix at > https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-fixes, or if you can > get 7.8.2 use that. > 4. Go to https://launchpad.net/~glasen/+archive/intel-driver, and install > the libraries, not the Intel driver. The current version 712 of the intel > driver is IMHO, inferior to v.710. 710 had no crashes at all, 712 has very > very intermittent ones, overall graphics performance is great with both. > 5. DO NOT install the Compiz patch unless you know how to operate your > computer in recovery mode. > > Try this, it works. I can see all my screensavers, Google Earth works > great, haven't tried any of the 3-d games, but I'm confident now. Flash > and online apps are rock solid now. > > -- > MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?) > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541492 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in X.org xf86-video-intel: Confirmed > Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” package in Ubuntu: Triaged > Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” source package in Lucid: Triaged > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel > > This is a MASTER bug report, i.e. not a real bug report, but a tool to help > manage other bug reports. > > Most bug reports on i845 are probably due to the CPU/GPU incoherency > problem that is now consolidated upstream at > http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26345 . For now, we mark all > automatically reported GPU lockups as duplicates of this unless there is a > reason not to. > > A fixed kernel is available at > https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-fixes > > To use this fixed kernel, run the following commands: > > sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brian-rogers/graphics-fixes > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.34-v9patch-generic > > There is a similar master bug report for i855 at bug 541511. > > > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/541492/+subscribe > -- MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541492 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs