sigh. i forgot. EXA acceleration isn't available anymore. It was too stable... not shiny and new enough.
(Yes, I'm aware why UXA is architecturally "better", I'm just annoyed at major regressions in the stability of a highly visible driver, and that there's no way to fallback to the old, stable behaviour.... and I'm annoyed at hearing my wife swear at her computer all the time now... you'll have to excuse my frustration). Please post if you need any further information. Please note I may have misspoke above.. she has a GM965, which I thought was X4500 based but I could be wrong. Here is her full lspci -nnvvv 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a02] (rev 0c) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0286] Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 29 Region 0: Memory at f6e00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Region 2: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 4: I/O ports at eff8 [size=8] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: i915 Kernel modules: i915 -- AisleRiot Solitaire Crashes GNOME! ... Ubuntu goes to login GDM screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/477915 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