Comment 257 for bug 541492

I am just asking. Why did Ubuntu 9.04 work so well and there was no issue
with my hard ware, but ever since, beginning with 9.10, this problem has
persisted. What Changed and why not go back to that version of X?

Doug

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:14 AM, sam <email address hidden> wrote:

> Running Maverick With Latest Updates and using whatever graphics driver is
> default
> did switch to intel driver which worked for a while though games were still
> slow but ended up crashing so i switched back to default
>
> --
> MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541492
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> of a duplicate bug (456902).
>
> Status in X.org xf86-video-intel: Confirmed
> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” source package in Lucid: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel
>
> This is a MASTER bug report, i.e. not a real bug report, but a tool to help
> manage other bug reports.
>
> Most bug reports on i845 are probably due to the CPU/GPU incoherency
> problem that is now consolidated upstream at
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26345 . For now, we mark all
> automatically reported GPU lockups as duplicates of this unless there is a
> reason not to.
>
>
> To use the available fix, run the following commands:
>
> apt-add-repository ppa:glasen/855gm-fix
> apt-add-repository ppa:brian-rogers/graphics-fixes
> apt-add-repository ppa:glasen/intel-driver
> aptitude update
> aptitude install linux 855gm-fix-dkms
> aptitude dist-upgrade
>
>
> There is a similar master bug report for i855 at bug 541511.
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