Following Martin's suggestion from Bug #490274 I added nomodeset to the kernel command line and all was well with kernels 2.6.31-14 and 2.6.31-15. When I picked up the update to 2.6.31-16 today things broke *worse*. It is still the case that booting without nomodeset and invoking the KDE display setting app causes the same X crash and a completely unusable machine.
However, with the 2.6.31-16 kernel *and* nomodeset, the display settings app now (usually but not always) produces a corrupt screen that is black for the top 1/3 and mouse clicks either are not reported as occurring in the correct location or are completely ignored -- I can't tell which. So this new kernel is represents regression rather than progress for i965gm users. I'm tempted to open a new bug -- this one (4771334) is really about behavior when KMS is active. With the -16 kernel there seems to be a problem even when KMS is not being used. Thoughts? -- X server hard crash when kubuntu System Settings Display app is started https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/477134 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
