[i945] Karmic freezes after boot - Intel video card 82945G/GZ

[Arvind]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel

This bug appears to have been reported under #492271.

I upgraded to Karmic from Jaunty. Upgrade was smooth, but immediately after restart Karmic froze after login in about a minute. Serach on forum yielded following workarounds which helped to restore normalcy, but with visual effects = None.

(1) Change /etc/xdg/compiz/compiz-manager file to replace "compiz_name=compiz.real" to "compiz_name=metacity"
(2) Before Karmic could freeze, in the 30 seconds that one gets after boot, change System->Preferences->Appearance->Visual Effects = None.

Both changes seem to be needed to keep desktop working without visual effects.

This bug appears to have been reported under #492271

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Feb 27 14:49:22 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
MachineType: Kobian PI945GCM
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2.1
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=f527cc53-55d5-4894-b4d0-f99b0743f60a ro splash quiet vga=773
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2.1
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-intel
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 08/16/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 080012
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: PI945GCM
dmi.board.vendor: Kobian
dmi.board.version: ECS
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Kobian
dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr080012:bd08/16/2007:svnKobian:pnPI945GCM:pvr1.X:rvnKobian:rnPI945GCM:rvrECS:cvnKobian:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
dmi.product.name: PI945GCM
dmi.product.version: 1.X
dmi.sys.vendor: Kobian
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.31-19-generic

[Geir Ove Myhr (gomyhr)]

Thank you for informing us about this bug in Karmic. At this point in time only security fixes are backported to Karmic. If you have the posibility to test Lucid, it would be great if you could test if the problem is still present there. If it is, please file a bug report from there with `ubuntu-bug xserver-xorg-video-intel`. I'm closing this bug, since we cannot do anything with it in its present form and I think it is easier for all parties if you file a new bug report from Lucid if the problem is present there rather than updating this bug report.