A few months ago, I was so frustrated that I played around with other distributions. Suse had similar X problems. Fedora only booted in text mode. After many hours of trying, I now have a Ubuntu combo w/o lockups.
It would be nice to know if there are alternatives. Perhaps you could let us know which distributions work for you. I might also switch, or maybe we can adapt their solution to Ubuntu. On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 3:37 AM, John Anthony Kazos Jr. <541...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > Why can't you just put the Intrepid driver back into a PPA somewhere? I > was using that driver for the entire duration of Karmic and it worked > fine, but now obviously it isn't available. I know free is free, but > this is simply unusuable, and thank god it's my off-box I just use for > email and not my main box. > > The initial drivers earlier in the cycle would turn my screen on and off > repeatedly, and if I hadn't been sitting right there when it happened, > you would have blown out my screen and I would have had to buy a new > one. The most recent I have been putting up with total X lockups > requiring a hard powerdown (why do they not put reset buttons on > machines nowadays?), and for the past week I have not one single time > gotten up in the morning without having to hard-boot the thing. > > Now I just tried the raof/aubergine stuff and all it managed to do was > send my X/gdm into some sort of infinite crashing loop (which is > strange, because before it went into that loop, it correctly displayed > my current desktop image, but before it could draw the toolbars, > kaboom). So now I have to go in and reset the blasted thing. > > Just put the Intrepid driver back up. Problem solved. So what if this is > "old" hardware? It's still making the entire operating system completely > unusuable on it, and for how long this has gone on, I doubt I'm the only > one thinking other distributions might be a good idea. > > -- > 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. > > > To use the available fix, run the following commands: > > apt-add-repository ppa:glasen/855gm-fix > apt-add-repository ppa:brian-rogers/graphics-fixes > apt-add-repository ppa:glasen/intel-driver > aptitude update > aptitude install linux 855gm-fix-dkms > aptitude dist-upgrade > > > 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
