Comment 149 for bug 585765

Well - as mentioned earlier - I was having problems earlier with random/sporadic "Black Screens".
Based on threads etc. I suspected problems with video drivers and intel chiopset.

Anyhow I had reproducible test case (System > Admin > System Testing > Video tests => Crash)

After trying out a lot of fixes (new kernels yadda yadda) I finally bit the bullet and went back to ubuntu 9.10.

So far stable. I tried the video tests, but the part where it cycles thru different resolution modes -where it usually crashed- is not in 9.10 so nothing definite at this point.

I notice my xserver-xorg-video-intel is version 2:2.9.0-1lubunt2
I might try to install that particular driver on ubuntu 10.04 at some point (when I have time) to see what happens.

In the mean time, I'll see how stable this baby is running on my dell optiplex gx260 Pentium 4.

(Given I ran it successfully in past with win XP/wubi I'm hopeful)

Seems to me like this thread is capturing information about a lot of different bugs and I have to say I'm really disappointed and disillusioned with ubuntu (esp. stability) at this point. Considering going to "rock solid" debian....this baby seems a helluva lot worse for crashing than windows 95 ever was.

BTW: I'm loathe to ever take an update again!!!! I'm relative new to linux - my initial dabblings were very favorable but Ubuntu 10.04 seems to fall over more often than a drunken toddler!