[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 511001] Re: [i855] Lucid Freeze shortly after X startup (needs KMS blacklist?)

2010-04-30 Thread Antonio Macchi III
Yes, I confirm that this problem is still present on the final release of Lucid. A clean (atlernate) install of the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS fails completely to boot on machines with Intel 855 etc graphics family. This is a catastrophe for me since we have several of those systems in the surroundings and

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 554835] Re: [855GM] GPU hang when an application tries to use XVideo

2010-04-29 Thread Antonio Macchi III
My test laptop a Sony Vaio VGN-B1XP with Intel 855 graphics crashes badly with the 10.04 Lucid release candidate kernel 2.6.32-21. The symptom is only black screen and no activity upon attempt to boot /start. I get no error logs. Please assign a reasonably high priority for solving this regression

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 568779] Re: 10.04 rc livecd boots into black/blank screen (intel 82852/855GM graphic card)

2010-04-26 Thread Antonio Macchi III
Hello, I am having similar problems and cannot boot with generic kernel 2.6.32-21 on my test laptop, a Vaio VGN-P1XP with Intel 855 graphics. Ordinary boot fails with black screen and no activity. Booting on recovery mode succeeds but safe graphics give scrambled screen and no activity. I could