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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #511001
  2. Comment #43

Comment 43 for bug 511001

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Floris Van den Abeele (florisvda) wrote :

I have encountered the same problem on my IBM Thinkpad X40 after upgrading Karmic to Lucid Lynx.
My display adapter :
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device

I can confirm that enabling KMS fixed the freezing and now I am able to boot in a normal manner.

My setup is a bit different though, the i915.modeset=1 gets passed to the kernel by GRUB while booting. This can be acheived by adding 915.modeset=1 to the grub boot options after pressing 'e' in the GRUB menu.
To make these settings persistent edit /etc/defaults/grub and run grub-update.