Comment 552 for bug 359392

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Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml) wrote : Re: [Bug 359392] Re: [i965] X freezes starting on April 3rd

Il giorno gio, 04/06/2009 alle 18.48 +0000, Thomas Foss ha scritto:
> How would one reinstall the old driver? I didn't think it was an
> option.
> Heck, I'd downgrade back to Intrepid if I there was a way to do it.
> There
> should be a "downgrade" button that's as big and shiny as the Jaunty
> upgrade
> button was.
> (Or maybe the upgrade buttons could just have little warning labels on
> the
> side... like cigarettes do.)
>

It's easy; here is the link, it worked well for me even though compiz is
a bit slower (but I am using EXA and not UXA with the old driver because
it is not strictly necessary to use the latter).

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReinhardTartler/X/RevertingIntelDriverTo2.4

Check the Xorg logs before and after doing it to be sure that the driver
version changed (when the intel driver is loaded a string containing
"intel" and the version is shown in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, can't be more
precise because I am using another machine now).

Vincenzo