Okay, well this sounds like the pretty well known X freeze issue, esp. if it's not particular to firefox. If you can reproduce it on karmic feel free to reopen the bug, but should be fixed I think. The gdm failure at login sounds like an unrelated problem.
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Fix Released -- [i945GME] display went blank when browsing firefox https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/393042 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp