Sam, Thanks for your comment.
I also found that "fix", while it did fix a lockup when ubuntu first boots up, it doesn't prevent the overall stability issues related to the video driver/or X or whatever the problem is. Depending on what you are doing (normal usage), you'll eventually trigger the lockup again. Picking a 2D or 3D screensaver seems to be a surefire way of reproducing the problem. Note that Centos 5.3/5.4 seems to work fine on that hardware combo(i3+H55). Also, Fedora 12 Desktop worked fine. I loaded X screensaver (don't know if that is the same as on ubuntu) but also loaded a large number of screensavers, and Fedora seems to be fine. I don't know or pretend to understand all the different versions of all the utilities enough to tell why this is. I've almost exclusively used Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives (like Linux Mint) --- I'm not crazy to jump to a Redhat based release. At the same time, this is really frustrating. I've got a brand new machine, _really_ am trying not to load Windows, and I have very little options to actually use this hardware! Thanks Keith -- entire desktop environment locks up in 9.10, i3-530 proc, built-in graphics https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/516909 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
