[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 438346] Re: [i915gm] [i915gm] [jaunty, karmic] X freezes every day or so

2010-05-30 Thread Cos
Have upgraded my laptop to 10.4 LTS: Gnome has crashed at least twice just today. The only difference is that the newer version offers an option to switch console. And Ctrl-Alt-Del is working as expected. Other than that - it is the same crap as before :( -- [i915gm] [i915gm] [jaunty,karmic] X fr

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 438346] Re: [i915gm] [jaunty, karmic] X freezes every day or so

2010-02-10 Thread Cos
My understanding is that because of 10.4 LTS release Karmic became a very low priority for Ubuntu developers. I guess we just have to either wait for 9.10's specific patch or eventually upgrade to 10.4 in like 6 months or so (when it gets stable enough) :-( -- [i915gm] [jaunty,karmic] X freezes e

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 438346] Re: [i915gm] [jaunty, karmic] X freezes every day or so

2010-01-03 Thread Cos
What an irony - my laptop just hung when I was trying to put in a comment to this very bug! :-( > but think it is the new Intel chip set drivers Yes, it seems to be the driver problem. Which means that it is the code regression and it needs to be fixed. However, despite the fact that the bug aff

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 438346] Re: [i915gm] [jaunty, karmic] X freezes every day or so

2009-12-01 Thread Cos
Last time my laptop worked for a couple of days. Today symptoms have repeated. However, this time the screen became all purple. As usual I could've move mouse cursor and could login into the computer. Interestingly enough, this time I was able to restart GDM by running # service gdm restart How

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 438346] Re: [i915gm] [jaunty, karmic] X freezes every day or so

2009-11-29 Thread Cos
I have IBM ThinkPad X41 with intel 915 video chipset. I'm using Gnome and doesn't have either Compiz installed nor any effects enabled. The problem has surfaced after some update back in 9.04. I'm seeing very often (sometimes a couple time a day) after upgrade to 9.10. Been running Ubuntu since 8.0