Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #541492
  2. Comment #78

Comment 78 for bug 541492

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Purgatori (purgatori-sakkara) wrote : Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

Well, so much for that. Rebooted my system about 1/2hr ago, and as soon as I load up scrotwm, I can see screen corruption (horizontal bar filled with white noise), and then X locked up completely. Tried re-jigging my xorg.conf (had previously been mucking around with vesa and fbdev), but to no avail... every time I loaded X, the same thing occured. Eventually, after removing my xorg.conf altogether, I concluded that something was awry with the driver itself, and so I removed it, and installed the one from the Lucid repos... which means I'll be due for a crash anytime soon, but at least it works for more than a few minutes.

I'm kinda at a loss here. I don't understand how the karmic driver worked so well for several days, and then bam, it decides to go crazy.