[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 820881] Re: [i945] Heavy screen and font corruption when free memory is low on GMA950

2011-11-01 Thread zemerica
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2582] (rev 04) so yeah, it's not *exactly* the same hardware as per the bug report but it is exactly the same symptom and probably similar enough causes... For full confirmation

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 820881] Re: [i945] Heavy screen and font corruption on GMA950

2011-10-30 Thread zemerica
OK - condition reproduced - I changed the mem as per SoW's instructions, opened a bunch of programs (ff, libre office) and watched the mem use on the system monitor. At about 80% swap (mem 55%ish?), the main menu text became corrupted. I continued to open tabs with active content in ff to

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 820881] Re: [i945] Heavy screen and font corruption on GMA950

2011-10-29 Thread zemerica
SoW - it varied in timing but I don't think I ever made it 12 hours - 2 hours max I'd say... sometimes almost immediately - but it would always be when I was maxing my mem-usage I'm pretty new to this ... I tried rebooting, holding shift to enter the grub loader editing it by adding a line set

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 820881] Re: [i945] Heavy screen and font corruption on GMA950

2011-10-28 Thread zemerica
update: I formerly had 512Mb ram - I installed another 2G ram today and no problems where before it was to the point my system was nearly unusuable. Yay! :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 820881] Re: [i945] Heavy screen and font corruption on GMA950

2011-10-26 Thread zemerica
I have this problem in Unity 2D, 3D, Gnome Classic (which are all I've tried) I've tried modifying xorg.conf in several different ways, to no avail: tiling-false, debugwait true. It's gotten worse with Oneric - I had some Video RAM ## solution in xorg.conf that I'll post the link to if I find