Comment 196 for bug 541492

A few months ago, I was so frustrated that I played around with other
distributions. Suse had similar X problems. Fedora only booted in
text mode. After many hours of trying, I now have a Ubuntu combo w/o
lockups.

It would be nice to know if there are alternatives. Perhaps you could
let us know which distributions work for you. I might also switch, or
maybe we can adapt their solution to Ubuntu.

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 3:37 AM, John Anthony Kazos Jr.
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Why can't you just put the Intrepid driver back into a PPA somewhere? I
> was using that driver for the entire duration of Karmic and it worked
> fine, but now obviously it isn't available. I know free is free, but
> this is simply unusuable, and thank god it's my off-box I just use for
> email and not my main box.
>
> The initial drivers earlier in the cycle would turn my screen on and off
> repeatedly, and if I hadn't been sitting right there when it happened,
> you would have blown out my screen and I would have had to buy a new
> one. The most recent I have been putting up with total X lockups
> requiring a hard powerdown (why do they not put reset buttons on
> machines nowadays?), and for the past week I have not one single time
> gotten up in the morning without having to hard-boot the thing.
>
> Now I just tried the raof/aubergine stuff and all it managed to do was
> send my X/gdm into some sort of infinite crashing loop (which is
> strange, because before it went into that loop, it correctly displayed
> my current desktop image, but before it could draw the toolbars,
> kaboom). So now I have to go in and reset the blasted thing.
>
> Just put the Intrepid driver back up. Problem solved. So what if this is
> "old" hardware? It's still making the entire operating system completely
> unusuable on it, and for how long this has gone on, I doubt I'm the only
> one thinking other distributions might be a good idea.
>
> --
> MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541492
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> 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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