Bryce There was apparently a problem in the kernel causing X to crash. I'm not sure but I think the driver was either creating graphic errors or it could not properly handle real hardware graphic errors occurring on my system. Installing meerkat fixed the problem and it would stay up without crashing right in the middle of what I was doing. What a headache though because I was trying to get away from using windows and I almost gave up on Linux altogether because of all the problems.
Anyway I eventually defected and switched to Linux Mint 10. I like it better than ubuntu as it seems to be more user friendly. But I will at some future date download natty and give it a try just out of curiosity to see what the new gnome 3 looks like. John ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Bryce Harrington <642...@bugs.launchpad.net> To: jer...@juno.com Subject: [Bug 642227] Re: [i845] screen goes blank seemingly at random times Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 03:11:32 -0000 Hi, sorry you had trouble getting Ubuntu working on your 8xx chip. I'd like to have you re-test against natty and if it's still not working right, please file a bug upstream at bugs.freedesktop.org against Xorg / Intel. The intel driver seems to not get tested well against the 8xx chips and we've seen lots of regressions and mis-features. Unfortunately the driver code seems to be rather fragile as well, so we've found we cannot effectively patch and maintain the driver at the distro level, and thus are no longer providing development support, nor will be backporting fixes to older Ubuntu releases. You may still be able to get some technical support from places like http://askubuntu.com and similar to work around problems. ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/642227 Title: [i845] screen goes blank seemingly at random times Status in âxserver-xorg-video-intelâ package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: xorg I'm having a problem with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The screen goes blank seemingly at random times. It appears to be locking the screen. Sometimes I get the virtual terminal and sometimes it's just garbage. I un-installed the screen-saver and thought I had the problem fixed but yesterday I experienced the same problem twice right in the middle of what I was doing. I'm running an HP Pavilion desktop with a Intel 82845G/GL video chip set. Celeron cpu 3.06Ghz, 1 Gig ram, with Ubuntu 10.04 lucid, kernel 2.6.32-24-generic, gnome 2.30.2 It's most annoying because I usually have to power cycle the machine. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: xorg 1:7.5+5ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.43-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Sep 18 10:41:38 2010 DkmsStatus: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1) ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic root=UUID=11e6ffa7-6b7d-4444-97cb-a8939a8878b0 ro quiet splash ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: xorg dmi.bios.date: 05/09/2005 dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD dmi.bios.version: 3.08 dmi.board.name: Guppy dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTek Computer INC. dmi.board.version: 1.03 dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.chassis.version: 1111 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr3.08:bd05/09/2005:svnASUSTeKComputerINC.:pn:pvr:rvnASUSTekComputerINC.:rnGuppy:rvr1.03:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct3:cvr1111: dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC. glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory system: distro: Ubuntu codename: lucid architecture: i686 kernel: 2.6.32-24-generic [lspci] 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device [8086:2562] (rev 03) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a00] To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/642227/+subscribe ____________________________________________________________ Refinance for 2.625% Loans under 729K usually qualify for US GOV backed refinance programs http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/4db8fc48b49ba131f8est02vuc -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/642227 Title: [i845] screen goes blank seemingly at random times _______________________________________________ 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
