Well ...  the reason some of the kernels weren't showing up was I was
forgetting to install them - forgot a step.

After a number of hours of testing kernels, it didn't seem to make as
much difference the order shown on
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ but, rather the date that
it was last modified; everthing up to 14 Aug worked  
these did not work:
v2.6.31-rc7/22-Aug-2009 11:41 
v2.6.31-rc8/28-Aug-2009 11:41 v
2.6.31-rc9/06-Sep-2009 11:43 
v2.6.31.1/29-Sep-2009 18:32 

v2.6.31/11-Sep-2009 00:29 

these did:
v2.6.31-rc6/14-Aug-2009 11:24
v2.6.30/10-Jun-2009 11:27 - 
v2.6.31-rc1-fix1/06-Jul-2009 13:06 - 
v2.6.31-rc2/05-Jul-2009 11:16

How do I get rid of all the list of kernel choices on the page that
stops - I deleted most of them as you said "To remove them completely
from your" but they keep showing up as a long list...

MORE INFO: 
v2.6.31-rc6/14-Aug-2009 11:24 worked fine but rc 7froze with a blank
screen - ctrl/alt/delete did not do anything;
v2.6.31-rc8/28-Aug-2009 11:41 froze a little differently ... at the
screen with the ubuntu symbol with a red line under it, the line turned
yellow, as usual for the first 1 centimeter of 9; then froze; I did a
ctrl/alt/delete and a screen which said the following appeared: 
"Couldn't start the x server (your graphical environment) due to some
internal error. Contact Administrator or check system log to diagnose.
In the Meantime this display will be disabled. Please restart GDM when
problem is corrected." it had a dos/terminal-like command line with
"ubuntu 9.04 presario tty1" then "presario login _" (preario is the name
of this computer). and allowed me to log in at this command line.

well, let me know what you think; hope this all helps. Dave



system, run `dpkg -P  linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic` and similar.

On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 00:35 +0000, Geir Ove Myhr wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:39 PM, daves111 <email address hidden> wrote:
> > here is some more info that may help: installed 9.04and it worked fine
> > with kernel 2.6.28-11 generic; then I updated which gave me kernel
> > 2.6.28-17 and it still works in gnome; then I tried kernel 2.6.31-15
> > generic and it froze like before as did 2.6.31-14 (I think).
> 
> Actually, that's awesome! That means that there is a kernel commit
> that triggers this bug (this is also the case for some freezes on 845G
> and 855GM that I'm troubleshooting. And since you have your standard
> Jaunty kernel that works well, you may be able to help identify the
> bad commit by testing some other kernels. That would be a very big
> step towards resolving this bug.
> 
> > How do I
> > get rid of the other choices so it will just boot without stopping at
> > that menu?
> 
> I assumed you install deb-packages with file names
> linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic_2.6.31-14.48_i386.deb and similar to
> install the extra kernels.  To remove them completely from your
> system, run `dpkg -P  linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic` and similar. To
> get a list of kernel packages installed on your system, run `dpkg -l |
> grep linux-image`.
> 
> > Is there some way to let me know if this bug gets fixed so I
> > can upgrade and so I can move up to Lucid in April? Dave
> 
> Write down the bug numbers of the bug reports on these links:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bugs?field.tag=945g%20freeze&field.tags_combinator=ALL
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bugs?field.tag=945gm%20freeze&field.tags_combinator=ALL
> (bug reports are removed from this list as bugs get closed). Check on
> them in April and see if the have beeen fixed. At least some of them
> will be the same problem that you have.
> 
> To check which kernel version introduces the freezes, there are
> prebuilt mainline kernels at [1], see [2] for more info. We may be
> lucky that the commit that introduced freezes on either 845G or 855GM
> is the same one that introduces them for you. To test that, install
> the kernels with freezetest8 and freezetest9 in the filename from [3],
> if freezetest8 does not freeze but freezetest9 does, the problematic
> kernel change is the same as for 845G. If not, install  the one with
> 599 and 600 in the filename from [4]. If 599 does not freeze bug 600
> freezes, it's the same commit as for 855GM.
> 
> The Karmic kernel 2.6.31-14-generic corresponds to mainline kernel
> 2.6.31.4. See  [5] for a full list.
> 
> [1]: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/
> [2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/MainlineBuilds
> [3]: http://www.kvante.info/845Gfreeze/
> [4]: http://www.kvante.info/855GMfreeze/
> [5] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/info/kernel-version-map.html
>