Comment 173 for bug 541511

On my legacy hardware (Asus S1300N from 2003) with Lucid fully updated, the graphical login screen won't show without KMS.

Applying option 3 solves it :
echo options i915 modeset=1 | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf

If I then click on my login entry, Xorg crashes immediately berore I can enter my password.
The screen flickers several times then I am informed that Ubuntu works in lower graphics mode.

More details about my hardware :

$ lspci -vs 00:02
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Holco Enterprise Co, Ltd/Shuttle Computer Device 3141
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28
        Memory at fd000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        I/O ports at ff00 [size=8]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Holco Enterprise Co, Ltd/Shuttle Computer Device 3141
        Flags: fast devsel
        Memory at fda00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1M]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

Regards,
Patrick.