Public bug reported: Trying to boot Ubuntu on a machine with Gigabyte GA-EG45M-DS2H motherboard (Intel G45-chipset) which means it has the Intel GMA X4500HD graphics card. A few second after boot (usually before gnome-panel has finished loading) X.org goes bonkers and start to flash (looks like it's going modesetting or probing or something). After a few seconds or flashing back and other I see a dialog displayed but at this point the graphics has become corrupted and I can't read what the dialog says. I can still move the cursor over this dialog (even though the mouse cursor is also corrupted). If I try CTRL-ALT-F1 I can sometimes get to a normal text terminal and sometimes even the text terminal is corrupted. The kernel is not hung though, even though the text terminal effectively prevents me from reading anything I type or that is printed; I can still type in command blindly like "sudo reboot now" and it will reboot properly. The GDM screen is rock solid, no problems there. Also I got compiz turned off (by adding "exit" just under the "#/bin/sh" inside the /usr/bin/compiz script).
FYI: I've tried two different monitors (both using DVI-D). First one is a HP L1925 19" LCD and the other one is a Samsung 22" LCD Syncmaster 2253BW. I don't think the monitor has anything to do with it. I think I got the 2.4.1 version of the intel driver. I did try building it from scratch (including the needed libdrm). After doing buil- dep/configure/make they looked like they compiled right (not an expert) and then I just did "make install" but I've no idea if I actually did it properly. There is two interesting stacktraces with proper symbols in the attached xorg.0.log files. ** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- xorg hangs on startup (intel G45, compiz turned off) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/273708 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