Darxus,

Please try this before you buy a new computer:

My graphics performance seems a bit sluggish at times (but I also have a
slow network).  My system is stable with a 1680x1050 resolution on
82845G/GL.  Crashes have pretty much stopped.  Every once in a while my
system freezes when I try to log on, but that is workable for me.  Google
Earth also works.

I use the the Brian Rogers kernel linux-image-2.6.34-v9patch and Stefan
Glasenhardt's driver xserver-xorg-video-intel
2:2.12.0+git20100712~glasen~ppa1 and also his libraries libdrm2 and
libdrm-intel  2.4.21~glasen~ppa5.

Both are available from their PPAs.
https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-fixes
https://launchpad.net/~glasen/+archive/intel-driver

I am also going to look into Tim's suggestions but I have been using this
combination for some time now.

Good luck,
Felix


On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Tim Hallett <email address hidden>wrote:

> Darxus,
>
> Have you tried the following, in order, exactly? Somehow, I doubt it
> because this actually works.
> 1. In Synaptic package manager, go to Linux, select the item that just says
> "Linux", this will download and install the latest stable Ubuntu kernel,
> which will install without reformatting your drive or killing your network
> connectivity (as is the case with the Rogers' patch, not being fully
> implemented for Ubuntu, no I do not want to re-compile the rt2870 drivers).
> This by itself stops 95% of the crashes. Just try this for a while, if you
> still have occasional crashes, do the following.
> 2. Install the 855-fix at https://launchpad.net/~glasen/+archive/855gm-fix,
> if you do not know how to install a new repository, well there are detailed
> directions at that site. Either one works, but I use the experimental.
> 3. Install the Mesa fix at
> https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-fixes, or if you can
> get 7.8.2 use that.
> 4. Go to https://launchpad.net/~glasen/+archive/intel-driver, and install
> the libraries, not the Intel driver. The current version 712 of the intel
> driver is IMHO, inferior to v.710. 710 had no crashes at all, 712 has very
> very intermittent ones, overall graphics performance is great with both.
> 5. DO NOT install the Compiz patch unless you know how to operate your
> computer in recovery mode.
>
> Try this, it works. I can see all my screensavers, Google Earth works
> great, haven't  tried any of the 3-d games, but I'm confident now. Flash
> and online apps are rock solid now.
>
> --
> MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541492
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> 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
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> To unsubscribe from this bug, go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/541492/+subscribe
>