On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 13:35 +0000, Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:38:38AM -0000, Gustavo Narea wrote: > > Jgull8502 said: > > > I have a Dell m1330 Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated > > > Graphics Controller (rev 0c). I've been holding off upgrading because of > > > the intel bugs. I'm wondering if it's relatively safe to upgrade to 9.04 > > > now. I don't mind doing some configuring but I'm wondering if there's a > > > condensed list of things I can try if I experience this freezing. > > > > I have the same hardware and, as I reported here recently, this bug is > > solved > > with UXA: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/UxaTesting > > > > UXA works perfectly here. Just add that line to you X config, reboot > > and enjoy your Ubuntu install. > > > > UXA fixes all the bugs of the previous driver: Display corruptions and X > > freezes. Plus, it doesn't introduce _any_ bugs. > > Caveat emptor. When I tried UXA on Intel GM965 in Jaunty, I suffered > from two show-stopper bugs: (1) memory leak that would eat up all the > RAM within a day or two, causing all applications to be swapped out and > (2) X would crash on every suspend & resume, requiring me to log in > again and restart all the apps. Both bugs affected me with stock Jaunty > driver as well as xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.7.1 from the ubuntu-x-swat > PPA.
I see the exact same problems with UXA too (and kernel 2.6.30-rc7 plus the intel driver from git for that matter). So I guess these should be reported upstream. -- [i965] X freezes starting on April 3rd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359392 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
