Comment 147 for bug 541492

Hi

2010/6/21 Nigel Atkinson <email address hidden>

> I've tried the driver from ppa:glasen/intel-driver on two identical
> machines with i845 (from Memory - not at them at present). One seems to
> now work fine and can even run Blender without crashing (which would
> instantly previously). It has the server kernel (server + gnome-
> desktop).
>
> On the other, a standard 10.04 desktop install (and Parents machine to
> hard to test on) - I'm not sure if the driver made things more stable as
> I had to revert due to a problem with pictures, usually photos in
> Firefox. The pictures would initially show as a black rectangle, but
> usually show the picture once moused over. Some showed a previous
> picture slightly offset. It looks to me like the initial texture coping
> is not working - and having the mouse cursor over that part of the
> screen forces an update.
>
> Here's hoping this info gives someone an 'A ha!' moment. :-)
>
> --
> MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541492
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>
> Status in X.org xf86-video-intel: Confirmed
> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” source package in Lucid: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel
>
> This is a MASTER bug report, i.e. not a real bug report, but a tool to help
> manage other bug reports.
>
> Most bug reports on i845 are probably due to the CPU/GPU incoherency
> problem that is now consolidated upstream at
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26345 . For now, we mark all
> automatically reported GPU lockups as duplicates of this unless there is a
> reason not to.
>
> A fixed kernel is available at
> https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-fixes<https://launchpad.net/%7Ebrian-rogers/+archive/graphics-fixes>
>
> To use this fixed kernel, run the following commands:
>
> sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brian-rogers/graphics-fixes
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.34-v9patch-generic
>
> There is a similar master bug report for i855 at bug 541511.
>
>
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+1

Regards

N.Nandhakumar