Comment 29 for bug 356381

In Jaunty with Intel GM965 video, trying to add Option "AccelMethod" "UXA" to /etc/X11/xorg.conf results in a system freeze with a black screen when X starts if you use the -server kernel. (CapsLock doesn't work, the magic SysRq works). Specifically, I was using linux-image-2.6.28-11-server version 2.6.28-11.40. The -generic server works (more or less, this is not the place to complain about other UXA bugs).

Why is this important (i.e. why would anyone run the -server kernel on a desktop)? This is why:

If a user installs ubuntu-xen-desktop (which is a package for running Xen "on desktops", so a natural thing to install on a desktop), apt pulls in linux-image-server as a dependency. GRUB then decides that the -server kernel is preferred to the regular -generic and boots into it (which is weird, but okay, maybe Xen needs that?).

I had to uninstall the -server kernel (and ubuntu-xen-desktop) as a workaround.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
MachineType: LENOVO 646655G
Package: linux-image-2.6.28-11-generic 2.6.28-11.40
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=34a7bfc5-59dc-4d74-a131-45b6ae4663b1 ro quiet splash vga=872
ProcEnviron:
 LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=lt_LT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-11.40-generic
SourcePackage: linux