Comment 204 for bug 541511

I tried your procedure and it worked. Great. Thank you very much.

2010/5/1 Elena M. Lopez ("Nena") <email address hidden>

> @pvanderploeg,
> I have the same issue with my D400 with the same graphics card. I just
> tried the workaround listed in posts #33 and #34 in the following thread,
> and it worked for me (
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1465883&page=4).
>
> Basically, what I did was as follows:
>
> Step 1: When booting into the live CD, I pressed Tab, and added the
> i915.modeset=1 option to the boot command line.
> Refer to thread/post:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9203466&postcount=33
>
> Step 2: I installed Lucid with no problems, but when restarted, I of
> course ran into the same boot issue. So, I needed to make the changes in
> step 1 permanent.
>
> Step 3: I restarted into the live environment again (as in step 1), mounted
> my local root partition, and as root, did two things in the /etc/ directory.
> a) permanently added "i915 modeset=1" (w/o quotes) to the grub
> configuration file (/etc/default/grub).
> Refer to thread/post:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9171045&postcount=11 (as redirected
> from http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9203466&postcount=34)
>
> b)created the configuration file /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf and added
> the line "options i915 modeset=1" (w/o quotes) according to the first
> workaround listed in this thread:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Lucidi8xxFreezes
>
> And it now everything works. Finally. And life is good again. If you have
> any questions, feel free to PM me through launchpad. Although I am not an
> expert, I can at least explain what worked for me, although I couldn't tell
> you why. :)
> ~Elena
>
> --
> MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541511
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> Status in Ubuntu Release Notes: Fix Released
> 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 i855 are probably due to the CPU/GPU incoherency
> problem that is now consolidated upstream at
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27187 (which was split off
> from a bug report for i845). For now, we mark all automatically reported GPU
> lockups on i855 as duplicates of this unless there is a reason not to. There
> are some tests you may do to help upstream with this issue, and I will come
> back with instructions here. For those of you who know how to patch and
> compile a kernel you may look at comment #30 (and #6 for what kind of
> feedback they want) in the upstream bug report. Actually, if someone could
> volunteer to build an ubuntu-packaged kernel with this patch for others to
> test, that would be nice.
>
> There is a similar master bug report for i845 at bug 541492.
>
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