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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Lucid (10.04)
  2. Bug #541492
  3. Comment #217

Comment 217 for bug 541492

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Jean-Marie PIVETEAU (jean-marie-piveteau) wrote : Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

Brian,

Follow-up of my #214: I tried many times figuring out how to make vesa driver make use of the 1024x768, to no avail. Each time modifying the xorg.conf file and adjusting the screen and monitor sections with tricks I found on the "change resolution/refresh rate in Xorg" HOWTO (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=83973). After all may be vesa cannot use higher resolution than 640x480, but most probably I haven't understood some basics about how all these things works :-)

Anyway, I just realized about an hour ago that I could upgrade from the 2.11 driver to the version 2.12 provided by your package.
And by issuing the command "sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel=2:2.12.0+shadow+77.gb933ead-lucid2" I could upgrade to the 2.12 (compiled for the 1.8.2 X server!)

then I had again to re-enable KMS using workaround A from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Lucidi8xxFreezes#Workaround%20A:%20Re-enable%20KMS, otherwise I got the "intel(0): No kernel modesetting driver detected" error from the X server and a black screen (CTRL-ALT-F1 usable though).

I am up again with my preferred resolution 1024x768 !!

My X server is now therefore 1.8.2 and intel driver version is 2.12.0 (from your package).

Let's hope it will be stable :-)

My configuration as of now:
- uname -a:
Linux jmp-desktop 2.6.32-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 20 14:24:04 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
- cat /etc/lsb-release:
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS"
- head -2 /var/log/Xorg.0.log | tail -1:
X.Org X Server 1.8.2
- Here attached my last X server boot log.

Best Regards,
Jean-Marie