Comment 18 for bug 500686

ok, here's what I've done, so far: 2.6.30 020630 of Jun 10 '09 worked
fine, but none of the 2.6.31's have worked so far; I tried a number of
them. I downloaded several of them, but only one 31 would show up labled
"-generic"; I deleted the 31 that showed up when I did "dpkg -l" then I
downloaded 31-rc1-fix1 but it wouldn't show. next I'm trying 31-rc2 of
25 Jun. ... I'll let you know how it goes. Dave

On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 00:35 +0000, Geir Ove Myhr wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:39 PM, daves111 <email address hidden> wrote:
> > here is some more info that may help: installed 9.04and it worked fine
> > with kernel 2.6.28-11 generic; then I updated which gave me kernel
> > 2.6.28-17 and it still works in gnome; then I tried kernel 2.6.31-15
> > generic and it froze like before as did 2.6.31-14 (I think).
>
> Actually, that's awesome! That means that there is a kernel commit
> that triggers this bug (this is also the case for some freezes on 845G
> and 855GM that I'm troubleshooting. And since you have your standard
> Jaunty kernel that works well, you may be able to help identify the
> bad commit by testing some other kernels. That would be a very big
> step towards resolving this bug.
>
> > How do I
> > get rid of the other choices so it will just boot without stopping at
> > that menu?
>
> I assumed you install deb-packages with file names
> linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic_2.6.31-14.48_i386.deb and similar to
> install the extra kernels. To remove them completely from your
> system, run `dpkg -P linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic` and similar. To
> get a list of kernel packages installed on your system, run `dpkg -l |
> grep linux-image`.
>
> > Is there some way to let me know if this bug gets fixed so I
> > can upgrade and so I can move up to Lucid in April? Dave
>
> Write down the bug numbers of the bug reports on these links:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bugs?field.tag=945g%20freeze&field.tags_combinator=ALL
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bugs?field.tag=945gm%20freeze&field.tags_combinator=ALL
> (bug reports are removed from this list as bugs get closed). Check on
> them in April and see if the have beeen fixed. At least some of them
> will be the same problem that you have.
>
> To check which kernel version introduces the freezes, there are
> prebuilt mainline kernels at [1], see [2] for more info. We may be
> lucky that the commit that introduced freezes on either 845G or 855GM
> is the same one that introduces them for you. To test that, install
> the kernels with freezetest8 and freezetest9 in the filename from [3],
> if freezetest8 does not freeze but freezetest9 does, the problematic
> kernel change is the same as for 845G. If not, install the one with
> 599 and 600 in the filename from [4]. If 599 does not freeze bug 600
> freezes, it's the same commit as for 855GM.
>
> The Karmic kernel 2.6.31-14-generic corresponds to mainline kernel
> 2.6.31.4. See [5] for a full list.
>
> [1]: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/
> [2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/MainlineBuilds
> [3]: http://www.kvante.info/845Gfreeze/
> [4]: http://www.kvante.info/855GMfreeze/
> [5] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/info/kernel-version-map.html
>