I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 and apparently ran into this bug. I never encountered these problems before in previous releases, I was previously running 7.10 (Gutsy). Toggling SAVE_VBE_STATE to false in /etc/default/acpi-support as Paul Sladen explained in Comment #8 solved the rendering problems for me.
Here's the output for grep . /var/lib/acpi-support/*-*:
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 and apparently ran into this bug. I never encountered these problems before in previous releases, I was previously running 7.10 (Gutsy). Toggling SAVE_VBE_STATE to false in /etc/default/ acpi-support as Paul Sladen explained in Comment #8 solved the rendering problems for me.
Here's the output for grep . /var/lib/ acpi-support/ *-*:
/var/lib/ acpi-support/ bios-version: 1VET71WW (1.29 ) acpi-support/ system- manufacturer: IBM acpi-support/ system- product- name:2887AVG acpi-support/ system- version: ThinkPad R51
/var/lib/
/var/lib/
/var/lib/
And lspci | grep -i graphics:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)