Public bug reported: I'm running Ubuntu Edgy AMD64 on a Core 2 Duo (Intel DG965WH mobo w/ onboard g965 video). X usually started fine the first time, but stopping and restarting, or switching to a text console and back often resulted in video corruption. The VGA out was outputting a signal, but my monitor couldn't sync to it, so I saw basically an average of all the colours on the screen. connecting to the display with x11vnc worked. Suspending and resuming (ACPI S3 - suspend to RAM) the whole system fixed the video, because that re-POSTs the card. (This mobo has pretty good ACPI support. :)
I grabbed the latest xf86-video-intel git tree, and the driver from that totally solved the problem. It's v1.7.3. I haven't seen the bad video output thing with it at all. I'm not sure if this is a good place to explain how I did it, for the benefit of other users, but here it is. I did apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-i810 to get all the dev packages. I got the source using the git command listed at http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/download.html. (note that Mesa uses git now, too, so don't use the cvs command listed there.) build the source cd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers sudo dpkg-divert --local --rename $PWD/i810_drv.so copy the new i810_drv.so to new/..., and use ln -s to make a symlink so you can easily switch back and forth between your custom module and the distro version. Use dpkg-divert to remove the diversion when Ubuntu catches up with your custom module and you want to stop messing around with this. ** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-i810 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- new upstream version fixes mode save/restore problem https://launchpad.net/bugs/75706 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
