Comment 519 for bug 359392

On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 13:35 +0000, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> 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.

I see the exact same problems with UXA too (and kernel 2.6.30-rc7 plus
the intel driver from git for that matter).

So I guess these should be reported upstream.