Comment 517 for bug 359392

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:38:38AM -0000, Gustavo Narea wrote:
> Jgull8502 said:
> > I have a Dell m1330 Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated
> > Graphics Controller (rev 0c). I've been holding off upgrading because of
> > the intel bugs. I'm wondering if it's relatively safe to upgrade to 9.04
> > now. I don't mind doing some configuring but I'm wondering if there's a
> > condensed list of things I can try if I experience this freezing.
>
> I have the same hardware and, as I reported here recently, this bug is solved
> with UXA:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/UxaTesting
>
> UXA works perfectly here. Just add that line to you X config, reboot
> and enjoy your Ubuntu install.
>
> UXA fixes all the bugs of the previous driver: Display corruptions and X
> freezes. Plus, it doesn't introduce _any_ bugs.

Caveat emptor. When I tried UXA on Intel GM965 in Jaunty, I suffered
from two show-stopper bugs: (1) memory leak that would eat up all the
RAM within a day or two, causing all applications to be swapped out and
(2) X would crash on every suspend & resume, requiring me to log in
again and restart all the apps. Both bugs affected me with stock Jaunty
driver as well as xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.7.1 from the ubuntu-x-swat
PPA.

So, I wouldn't recommend UXA as the panacea.

Marius Gedminas
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