They did blacklist KMS support for i8xx in an attempt to fix this, but that didn't work for everyone. I believe reverting to vesa was considered, but that has its own regressions including bad performance, lack of multi-monitor support, and often even a lack of support for a laptop's native resolution. And those regressions would be inflicted on all i8xx users, not just those that would encounter this bug.
So there were no good options. I'm sure if they knew 100% of i8xx users were affected, they'd switch to vesa. But there's no way to know that. It could be 5% and we wouldn't be able to tell the difference, since only affected users come here and report it. -- MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541511 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is the registrant for xf86-video-intel. _______________________________________________ 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
