A few months ago, I was so frustrated that I played around with other
distributions. Suse had similar X problems. Fedora only booted in
text mode. After many hours of trying, I now have a Ubuntu combo w/o
lockups.
It would be nice to know if there are alternatives. Perhaps you could
let us
Tim,
Thank you for your advice. Are you also still running the old
2.6.34-v9patch kernel from Brian Rogers? Why don't I need the updated
modules from Glasenhardt's '855gm-fix' like everyone else?
Anyone following the new instructions in the sticky is taken to Brian's new
kernel
Darxus,
Please try this before you buy a new computer:
My graphics performance seems a bit sluggish at times (but I also have a
slow network). My system is stable with a 1680x1050 resolution on
82845G/GL. Crashes have pretty much stopped. Every once in a while my
system freezes when I try to
The x-retro package worked well for a day. Then there were a couple of
crashes in rapid succession. One thing is definitely better: The X
server restarts and offers to run in low res mode. So no more zebra
stripes. I can also get to the gettys.
I can supply more information next time if
My 845G also still crashes with the white stripes after setting
'i915.modeset=0'. Please let me know if I can contribute to the testing
of any workarounds.
Only have one computer though, so no SSH.
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MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)
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