Comment 14 for bug 500686

I upgraded to Lucid; I still had a list of kernels showing before I get to
login; I tried several including 2.6.32-9-generic but those that went on to
the desktop here is what happened: I could move the mouse around the screen
until I hovered it over something that had a hint (or whatever it is called)
that showed ... then it would freeze and have to be shut off. On the 64-bit,
then, ... am I right in using ubuntu 64 for my computer? Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Geir Ove Myhr" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:13 PM, daves111 wrote:
> ok, I will test Lucid for you. Is there a chance that a problem is that
> I don't have a real 64 bit amd?

Nope, the name amd64 is there only for historical reasons. The
platform was invented by AMD while Intel had another 64-bit
architecture (lpia), but intel has since adopted AMDs platform. I must
admit I was also confused by the name at first.

On the other hand, it shouldn't be a problem to use i386 either, as
amd64 is backwards compatible. I think i386 is currently recommended
for desktop systems and amd64 for servers, but I'm no authority on
this.

If you feel that you have time and Lucid still freezes, you may try
with xorg-edgers. That amounts to adding two lines to
/etc/apt/sources.list and running `sudo apt-get dist-update; sudo
apt-get dist-upgrade`. That gives you a bleeding edge ubuntu (with the
most recent bug fixes, but also the most recent bugs). It is also a
very useful datapoint to know if this freezes (unless Lucid without it
does not). xorg-edgers is at
https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa .

Feel free to decline the last test if you think it sounds like it is
too much for you.

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[i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop
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