Comment 12 for bug 178451

THis has NOTHING to do with RSS FEEDS! Which LAME brain came up with that IDEA?

Furthermore.....what is with the attitudes here on this forum that COMMUNITY BUG REPORTS with VALID DATA are being treated as garbage....very unprofessional I might add. I dont care what language you program in. If you dont like your day job... find another.

that out of the way....

This is a INTEL MESA BUG.
The updates, I get from ppa from crack-coders and it updates ok several times a week..better some 3d than no 3d, but the 3d/mesa drivers dont work. Better to go software in this case, which unfortunately requires a reinstall of xorg and ubuntu-desktop packages and on intel systems and SEVERELY DEGRADES performance.

With a nVidia or ATI(mind you both have proprietary 3D acceleraltion packages), software rendering is not an issue, but a performance hit. On notebooks such as these(and my Gateway/Acer LT21) this software mode makes rendering next to impossible. It is the DRI/Hardware acceration modules of MESA/OpenGL that crashes X11.

If you enable the x11 ctrl-alt-backspace keyconfig and kill xorg with 'top' as root you can weasel your way back to a working system on the Gateway/Acer. The keyconfig is under the system gnome panel.

I dont understand...
Why cant everyone use a darm VESA 3 API and just get over it? The specs are out and I have them. Its all the same drawing code anyway....Its (MESA)openGL/DirectX that are different. And YES, I do OS development and have looked at the linux kernel and X11 sources. Not to pleased..

output of lspci is attached.