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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #370343
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 370343

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Hugo St-Germain (hugo-st-germain) wrote :

I tested with latest driver from xorg-edgers (xserver-xorg-video-intel - 2:2.7.99.1+git20090505.r1.a8a771a8-0ubuntu0sarvatt) and the stock Jaunty Kernel (2.6.28-11): the problem is still present in this configuration. The symptoms are slightly different as I get a corrupted screen instead of a blank screen and/or sometime X spontaneously restarts after a while (approx 30s to 1 minute). Otherwise unchanged, X freezes after selecting fast user switch 100% of the time and the keyboard is locked up (until a spontaneous restart occurs or I manually restart gdm via SSH).

I also tested with the driver above and Kernel 2.6.30-020630rc4-generic: The bug is fixed in this configuration as X no longer freezes on fast user switch. X however often (but not always) crashes and automatically restarts during or within seconds after a fast user switch (but that is a different bug to watch for as Karmic comes together - I will report if it is present then).

Several commits from April have been listed as addressing this bug upstream. The testing above along with the comment from the reporter of one of the duplicate bugs discussed earlier confirm that this bug is indeed fixed upstream (but it requires changes to both Kernel and xorg).

Thanks!