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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Lucid (10.04)
  2. Bug #541492
  3. Comment #117

Comment 117 for bug 541492

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MikeG0 (michael-gorham) wrote : Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

[Possible Workaround]
Dell Inspiron 1100 -intel 82845G/GL (on Lucid 10.04)
[Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03)]

Hacked at this for several days now. Been working mainly in gnome-terminal & firefox for more than 12 hours straight w/out a single crash. I think I have a workaround from a fresh apt-get dist-upgrade at 6AM this morning. These are the only changes I've made:

Reinstalled xulrunner (might not matter) ...
apt-get install --reinstall xulrunner-1.9.2
apt-get install --reinstall xulrunner-1.9.2-gnome-support
apt-get remove xulrunner-1.9.1

Added to xorg.conf under Monitor0 (might not matter) ...
HorizSync 31.5-48.5
VertRefresh 59-75

added to grub ...
video=LVDS-1:e video=VGA-1:d i915.modeset=0

Turned off Screen Saver and Power Management

And finally ... the big workaround ...

Removed the >>> Shockwave Flash <<< plugin from Firefox 3.6.3.

firefox-bin was flooding .session-errors ... since removing flash, very few firefox-bin errors. I'm still getting random .xsession-errors from polkit-gnome-authentication-agent, gnome-terminal, firefox-bin, rhythmbox ... but 12 hours straight uptime is pretty good compared to the immediate X startup crash.

Regardless of the .xsession-errors, there's no observable system degradation. I'll report back if I crash ... fingers crossed.

Still looking forward to a fix for all those .xsession-errors.

Hope this helps,

Mike