[Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2010-08-31 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
Making me install the xorg-edgers repository would be useless. I have already tried that, and only ppa-purge saved me from having to wipe the entire freaking system to reinstall. I never saw any Unix system produce a more violent crash/lockup/retry cycle than that repository did to my machine.

[Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2010-08-31 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
I'm simply saying that it is entirely untestable on my machine, because just running the packages in that repository on that hardware made me think my monitor was about to blow its tube. isn't it possible to get the old Intrepid driver working with Lucid's X version, or has it changed too much?

[Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2010-08-19 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
Why can't you just put the Intrepid driver back into a PPA somewhere? I was using that driver for the entire duration of Karmic and it worked fine, but now obviously it isn't available. I know free is free, but this is simply unusuable, and thank god it's my off-box I just use for email and not my