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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #605124
  2. Comment #27

Comment 27 for bug 605124

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In , Geir Ove Myhr (gomyhr) wrote :

Based on a comment from Robert Hooker downstream, I did some testing on the newest -rc5 based Ubuntu kernel (2.6.35-8.13). With this kernel, xorg does not fail, but I still get the kernel oops.
* Using the (invalid) kernel parameter vesafb=fubar did not change anything.
* With the Grub parameter 'set gfxpayload=text' instead of 'set gfxpayload=keep', I was not able to reproduce the oops.

This is apparently a recent change of defaults in Ubuntu [1]. There are some more comments on this issue on an Ubuntu bug report [2].

[1]: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-July/030995.html
[2]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/606244