Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Lucid (10.04)
  2. Bug #541492
  3. Comment #26

Comment 26 for bug 541492

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

Installed 20100407 which ran for 5 hours with KMS on i845 video graphics and was entering a comment here when screen flashed black then to command line like Ctrl-Alt-F1 a couple times then crashed hard. Could not even ssh in.

I don't think Ubuntu had time to record anything useful but I ran ubuntu-bug xorg see Bug#558613 after booting up.

I'd strongly recommend "i915.modeset=0" default for both i845 and i830. Most of the time over the last year while Ubuntu has been working on KMS it has not worked on these video graphics, or if it does briefly a "dread update" makes them unstable.

If someone wants to turn KMS on and try it, O.K., but in my experience not for an ordinary user as default.

Jerry