Comment 77 for bug 702090

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote : Re: [Bug 702090] Re: i965gm GPU lockup if vesafb is left loaded (EIR: 0x00000010 PGTBL_ER: 0x00000100) - *ERROR* EIR stuck: 0x00000010, masking

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 08:00:42PM -0000, Bob Murphy wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Bryce Harrington <<email address hidden>
> > wrote:
>
> > Has anyone tried testing apw's PPA (ppa:apw/purple)?
> >
> > I don't know if we can put the fix into Ubuntu until someone tests it
> > and confirms it does fix the issue.
> >
> > We've not been able to reproduce this bug synthetically ourselves, so we
> > really do need help from a subscriber of this bug report to test it out.
> > Otherwise we'd have to put the fix in blind (which probably wouldn't be
> > acceptable to the release team) or ship Ubuntu with the bug unfixed.
> >
> Sorry, I did a bit of distro-hopping sometime after filing the bug. When do
> you need it tested by, maybe I can re-load and test it. (Certainly not
> before this weekend)

Beta freeze is next week, so a few days before that would be the latest
we could introduce changes of this scope. Ideally I'd like to see
confirmation come within the next few days so we could roll this out for
wider testing before the weekend, but this next Monday would probably be
the absolute latest that test feedback would make a difference.

Bryce