[Bug 1727356] Re: Wayland sessions (including the login screen itself) don't start up on older Intel GPUs (pre-Sandy Bridge)

2018-07-05 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Yousef, Canonical should and does notify people of known problems in the release notes [1]. We only failed/forgot to mention this one and its workaround in the release notes. Although scrolling up, it appears nobody figured out what the workaround was until after 18.04 was released. And even then

Re: [Bug 1727356] Re: Wayland sessions (including the login screen itself) don't start up on older Intel GPUs (pre-Sandy Bridge)

2018-07-05 Thread Traumflug
Oh, Ubuntu does boot on such hardware just fine. And seeing how well it works I'd feel guilty of wasting money and polluting the environment when buying newer hardware. It does not boot all up into native Wayland. Nevertheless, one can run X11 just fine. How to turn Wayland off? Key is to

[Bug 1727356] Re: Wayland sessions (including the login screen itself) don't start up on older Intel GPUs (pre-Sandy Bridge)

2018-07-05 Thread Yousef Saber
I'm facing the same problem on my Intel Core 2 duo E8500 with G33 graphics Ubuntu 18.04 can't boot shouldn't canonical at least notified us that Bionic Beaver doesn't work on old hardware so no one tries it ?? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop

[Bug 1727356] Re: Wayland sessions (including the login screen itself) don't start up on older Intel GPUs (pre-Sandy Bridge)

2018-07-04 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Also seen today on: Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8500 (bug 1780077) and perhaps also: Intel® Core™ i3-380M Processor (bug 1779888) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to mutter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1727356

[Bug 1727356] Re: Wayland sessions (including the login screen itself) don't start up on older Intel GPUs (pre-Sandy Bridge)

2018-06-25 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Maybe related: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/127 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to mutter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1727356 Title: Wayland sessions (including the login screen itself)

[Bug 1727356] Re: Wayland sessions (including the login screen itself) don't start up on older Intel GPUs (pre-Sandy Bridge)

2018-06-12 Thread Daniel van Vugt
And: Intel Core2 Duo E7200 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to mutter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1727356 Title: Wayland sessions (including the login screen itself) don't start up on older Intel GPUs

[Bug 1727356] Re: Wayland sessions (including the login screen itself) don't start up on older Intel GPUs (pre-Sandy Bridge)

2018-06-07 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Also the original reporter: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to mutter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1727356 Title: Wayland sessions (including the login screen