OK - I've added a blurb to the release notes about the issue. If possible, sould some people test and make sure the graphical X setting tool can properly change the driver? I've had some problems with this, but it should work as it is a showcased feature in Gutsy.
On 10/10/07, Bryce Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The release notes are at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GutsyGibbon/RC. I > think it's a good suggestion to mention this issue in the Caveats > section, in a short and constructive manner. Would you mind taking a > shot at creating an initial draft of the text to go in here? > > Given the plan of putting out a release note and fixing this in a post- > release update, we need to approach this bug a little differently. > First, we need to focus on finding "regression-free" fixes or > workarounds. We will have made mention of the issue in the release > notes, so it would not be good to put out a fix that risks just moving > the bug to a new, unknown location. Second, I think we need to ensure > when we apply a fix, we have a deep understanding of *why* it works; > otherwise, we won't have confidence that we're truly fixing the root > cause. > > I posted about this issue to the xorg@ mailing list last night, to get > advice. Unfortunately, there's not been very little response. > > So far, the best attack angle we have are Juan Pablo's backtraces. > These give tangible, deep information into the issue, that could > possibly identify a real solution. I'm going to be focusing on this > angle. I would encourage others who wish to help solve this issue to > follow Juan Pablo's approach and try to also gain backtraces like his. > > unggnu, thanks for investigating the angle of removing the overlay fix. > However it sounds like that is more a fix for bug 141063 than this one. > Also, since presumably removing the fix would result in returning the > original bug that it fixed, it couldn't be considered regression-free. > > Jose, it's quite interesting that enabling EXA seems to reduce the > frequency of the issue, and that might provide a clue. However, EXA is > another new technology with its own collection of issues, and given that > we're dealing with issues from immature code, I don't think it's wise to > solve it by adding in more immature code without having a deep > understanding of why it makes it work. Also, if it requires dropping > patch 120 from xserver, we'll get that regression for XAA users. > > Tim, if you can identify which config variable in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf to > switch, then other users could test that. However, it's hard to change > gdm behavior without causing a regression somewhere, so this likely > contains some regression risk as well. But it might be worthwhile to > identify as a workaround, if we can get several of us to validate it. > > -- > laptop hangs when switching video mode > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/127101 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- laptop hangs when switching video mode https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/127101 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
