Comment 38 for bug 352373

On Tuesday 16 Jun 2009 9:27:11 am laysan_a wrote:
> It doesn't appear that a kernel upgrade to 2.6.30 solves this issue - at
> least not for some of us. My own experience and that of some others
> suggests that the apparent randomness of the freezes can create the
> belief that the problem is solved in the short term, when it is actually
> not. I am running the .30 kernel and it is freezing to black as much as
> ever.
>
> A couple of people have reported some success by (a). rolling back to an
> earlier xorg-ati driver or (b). recompiling the version of X for 8.10 to
> work on Jaunty.
>
> See these posts:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7442134&postcount=408
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7460608&postcount=426
> and
> http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3942
In addition to upgrading to kernel 2.6.30 you need to use latest intel driver
from xorg edgers ppa. I am using that happily for a few days and no freeze.
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Thanks
Jithin Emmanuel