[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 566324] Re: Xorg crash

2010-09-15 Thread Gerry O'Rourke
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 541492 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541492 Finally seem to have made progress on this. First thing I tried was upgrade to to the Maverick kernel (2.6.35-20). That did not fix it, but I was now getting a Ubuntu is running in low graphics... message

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 566324] Re: Xorg crash

2010-07-27 Thread Gerry O'Rourke
I was ok until tonight, when I installed all the latest updates. Got a crash after rebooting, decided to try the 855gm-fix, so I did the following in a terminal:- echo options i915 modeset=0 | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf Then did:- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:glasen/855gm-fix sudo

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 566324] Re: Xorg crash

2010-07-14 Thread Gerry O'Rourke
I was plagued with this same problem after upgrading to 10.04. Machine is a Dell GX260 with an Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01) Random crashes, always required an reboot to recover, got so bad I stopped using the machine for a while.