My problem with my i810 seems to be the same and the crude fix of reinstalling the old version through sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg- video-intel=2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1 and pinning it with sudo apt-mark hold xserver-xorg-video-intel=2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1 is working.
Let me tell you some background and guesswork why we have this problem. Because I haven't taken notes and the i810 computer is not at hands I might sound a bit fuzzy... X11 itself is not enough for modern video output. You also need DRI, GLX, MESA and others which are usually seperate from X11 and X11 low level drivers but are still pretty low level themselves. Starting with Ubuntu 14.04 the official DRI/GLX-drivers no longer support i810 (maybe this problem is older but 12.04 definitly does not have the problem, not sure if GLX or DRI, either libgl1-mesa-dri or libgl1-mesa-glx) . This in return means you get no MESA/OpenGL and no accelerated video. This is an Upstream-Decision outside Ubuntu and I was unable to find any explanaition for this though it was hinted that a lack for DRI/GLX means that i810 support itself might not live for much longer in Xorg. So I guess now is the time where i810 not only loses OpenGL and accelerated video upstream but is completely dropped from Xorg. Things look hopeless, already when i810-GLX/DRI got dropped upstream sounded totally uninterested in fixing it. Basically they suggested to compile your drivers manually based on older sources. And they sounded absolutely final on not fixing GLX/DRI. This is a real pitty because I have several of these old, quiet, small computers with i810 around and they worked perfectly good with 10.04. I can only hope someone has the time to do a PPA with working DRI/GLX /Xorg-Intel810. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1389904 Title: With the recent update to xserver-xorg-video-intel, system boots to a black screen Status in xserver-xorg-video-intel package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The latest system updates for Lubuntu 14.04 includes an update to the i915 display driver, which this machine uses. After applying updates and rebooting, at the end of the boot process, where normally the login screen appears, the screen remains blank (with a black background color). That change has rendered my Lubuntu 14.04 partition completely unusable, even when booting earlier versions of the kernel. Regardless the kernel level booted, the system now boots to a blank screen. Because of this, I had to report the error on my UbuntuStudio 14.04 partition, to which I have not yet applied updates. So the level of the Intel i915 driver package in this error report is the version prior to the updated version that (probably) caused the problem. 1. The release of ubuntu with the problem is Lubuntu 14.04.1, with a kernel version ending in ".39". 2. The last working version of xserver-xorg-video-intel is 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1 I can't boot by Lubuntu partition anymore to tell you the version number that fails, but it is later than the indicated version. 3. Prior to installing system updates, my Lubuntu 14.04.01 system worked fine, and I was able to boot it and perform my suite of tests (it's a test system). After applying updates, it boots to a blank screen, and I cannot do anything with it. I expected the login screen to appear, but it doesn't, and there is no error message. 4. After applying system updates I expected my system to reboot normally, allowing me to login. Instead, a blank screen is displayed, with no error message, and the login screen does not appear after many minutes of waiting. If I hit the power button, it initiates shutdown. Hitting several keyboard characters (or typing my password to the blank screen) had no effect. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57-lowlatency 3.13.11.4 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-lowlatency i686 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Wed Nov 5 16:13:54 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-28 (191 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140416.3) SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-intel UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1389904/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
