Comment 17 for bug 204065

Hi,

I was referred here by Bryce Harrington, from Launchpad.

There is a bug in the "intel" driver, only when running on a machine with the
Intel 945 chip (Intel(r) 82945GM Chipset Family Graphics Chip).

I could only install Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Beta with the Alternate CD because of this bug. When I booted the laptop after the installation, a seemingly normal login screen appeared. However: when I typed in my login name, the letters were absurdly huge and didn't fit in the login screen input field. After filling out my password and pressing Enter, X wouldn't show: the screen became black and stayed black.

I applied this workaround: a switch to the "i810" driver, which doesn't have this problem. So I had to reboot into recovery mode and run "apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-intel"
This way I uninstalled the "intel" driver, leaving only the "i810". Then I rebooted the laptop. Now Ubuntu 8.04 boots correctly into X.

This happens only with the Intel 945 chip. On another laptop with the Intel 915, there was no problem at all. Also there is no problem on a desktop computer with the Intel 946.

I have attached the output of lshw.

I hope you can fix this bad bug in the "intel" driver, before Ubuntu 8.04 ships in its final version. It's almost impossible now, to run Ubuntu 8.04 on a laptop with the Intel 945. I should add, that I encountered the same problem in PC-BSD 1.4.1, so it's not a distro-specific problem.

Greetz, Pjotr.