We don't need further confirmations from people seeing the issue. Also, we don't need further reports of how it was worked around; we know there's several ways of working around it. Unfortunately what works for one person doesn't for another.
This has been an extremely frustrating bug from a developer perspective, probably almost as frustrating as it is from a user perspective. It seems whenever we make a change to fix something for one set of users, it just causes breakage for some other set. There does not seem to be any particular combination of knob settings that makes things functional for *all* users. So what we've opted to do is turn off KMS for this hardware but pretty much leave all other settings to defaults. So people for whom this configuration works will have 3D and all the usual -intel functionality, just not the boot prettiness. For the set of users that find this is not a good configuration, we've documented the issue in the release notes with a link to the various workarounds people have found, here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Lucidi8xxFreezes If anyone discovers additional workarounds, or has ideas on improving this documentation, please feel welcome to edit this page. It may help your fellow 8xx users. It is our hope that there will come to be upstream fixes that are viable to backport. If we get enough fixes that we feel confident, we *might* re-enable KMS for 8xx chips on lucid at some point. There are likely to be a lot of patches flying around. If you wish to provide them in a PPA, that's cool. Just be mindful that our goal ultimately is to get a fix into Lucid, and time you can put towards that goal could help a lot. The nature of this bug is such that it's really sensitive to conditions. So you may find a configuration or patch that makes the issue totally go away on your system and someone else's, but breaks things on 3 other people's systems with exactly the same hardware. So getting a patch that fixes it for *everyone* is going to be really tough. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
