Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Lucid (10.04)
  2. Bug #541492
  3. Comment #51

Comment 51 for bug 541492

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

I'm an "ordinary user" running 1280x1024 on i845 primarily:
Full screen internet email, searches, news, politics health, forums like Ubuntu
Full screen Open Office spreadsheets, taxes etc.
Full screen Picasa digital photographs
Full screen Open Office word documents
Full screen (or nearly so) video's like You Tube, BBC, ABC Australia, Medline Health Day, ...
(I don't do FaceBook or Twitter)
For TV-viewer I run on an ati Express 200 which has had occasional trouble with Ubuntu X but nothing like as much as the intel's.
On my wife's PC we do Skype to Australia.

Now I don't know the insides of Ubuntu, seems to me all Compiz would do in these cases is insert code into the mailine with no help to my applications. Perhaps Compiz might be showy on a more powerful pc with screens bigger than I have, 1280x1024 and 1440x900 and of course 1024x768 on the two laptops.

With KMS on, when X fails so does Ubuntu and I'm at power off/on time. Unstable.

With KMS off, Ubuntu command line is still up for trying to ssh, resurrect the gdm, getting dumps, etc.

Anyway thanks for all the help people are trying to do for us users.

Geir, I'll give a try at the PPA for DRI on/off. Once booted up, is there any way to tell if DRI is on or off?

Jerry

p.s. Stability first. If there are fancy showy options, let them be options not defaults.