Comment 25 for bug 566324

I was ok until tonight, when I installed all the latest updates.
Got a crash after rebooting, decided to try the 855gm-fix, so I did
the following in a terminal:-

echo options i915 modeset=0 | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf

Then did:-

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:glasen/855gm-fix
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install dkms 855gm-fix-exp-dkms

Rebooted, got a message about running Ubuntu in low graphics mode & not being able to
detect graphics hardware/settings/etc & a dialog box with several options to try to fix it.

Nothing I tried worked, could not get gdm working.

Had to uninstall 855gm-fix & reboot, got several Xorg crashes in rapid succession, so
had to 'echo options i915 modeset=1 | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf'
to get back some sort of stability.