Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Lucid (10.04)
  2. Bug #541492
  3. Comment #73

Comment 73 for bug 541492

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

Yesterday I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on an elderly Dell desktop equipped with 82845G on board graphics and was hit by the stuck zebra crash reported here about every 5 min. The xserver-xorg-video-intel was disabling DRI when it recognized the chipset. The i915.modeset=0 workaround really worked for me - I sucessfully tested for more than one hour. Then I tried reverting the driver by installing http://ppa.launchpad.net/brian-rogers/graphics-testing/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-intel/xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.8.0-27-g926c7e7+lucid_i386.deb . This driver works with KMS for more than 3 hours now and the OpenGL performance is more than twice of the DRI disabled one. So for me there are two workarounds possible.
Thanks
Michael