Public bug reported:
Trying to boot Ubuntu on a machine with Gigabyte GA-EG45M-DS2H
motherboard (Intel G45-chipset) which means it has the Intel GMA X4500HD
graphics card. A few second after boot (usually before gnome-panel has
finished loading) X.org goes bonkers and start to flash (looks like it's
going modesetting or probing or something). After a few seconds or
flashing back and other I see a dialog displayed but at this point the
graphics has become corrupted and I can't read what the dialog says. I
can still move the cursor over this dialog (even though the mouse cursor
is also corrupted). If I try CTRL-ALT-F1 I can sometimes get to a normal
text terminal and sometimes even the text terminal is corrupted. The
kernel is not hung though, even though the text terminal effectively
prevents me from reading anything I type or that is printed; I can still
type in command blindly like "sudo reboot now" and it will reboot
properly. The GDM screen is rock solid, no problems there. Also I got
compiz turned off (by adding "exit" just under the "#/bin/sh" inside the
/usr/bin/compiz script).
FYI: I've tried two different monitors (both using DVI-D). First one is
a HP L1925 19" LCD and the other one is a Samsung 22" LCD Syncmaster
2253BW. I don't think the monitor has anything to do with it.
I think I got the 2.4.1 version of the intel driver. I did try building
it from scratch (including the needed libdrm). After doing buil-
dep/configure/make they looked like they compiled right (not an expert)
and then I just did "make install" but I've no idea if I actually did it
properly.
There is two interesting stacktraces with proper symbols in the attached
xorg.0.log files.
** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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xorg hangs on startup (intel G45, compiz turned off)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/273708
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