Thank you for your suggestions. Converting the mandriva debs with alien is ... ugly. But also, running in vesa mode @ 60Hz, is more ugly :)
I will probably wait for some progress for a week or two, and if there's nothing, I will give it a try. Basically I would only have to convert the intel driver package, right? Not the whole X system... Regards, Adrian On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Flemming Bjerke <[email protected]> wrote: > Torsdag 08 januar 2009 skrev Adrian Popa: > > Any progress (or is there another duplicate bug I can follow) on this > > problem? My X (using xfce ontop) still crashes and I am running it with > > vesa driver for now. For me, it's a critical bug! :) > > Indeed, it is critical. Basically, I think it is critical to all the ubuntu > project. I had to switch to Mandriva. > > You could try the X-system from mandriva. Try to run Mandriva as live-cd to > see if it works well. With alien you then SHOULD be able to change it to > deb- > packages. You could also try to get X from xorg ... Eles - if Mandriva > live-cd > works - try switching. > > Anyhow, my Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook E 8010 seized up when I trotted on the > adapter. I bought a HP 550, and it works perfectly with intrepid. > Nevertherless, it is a really bad experience when an dist-upgrade entails > that > you have to change distribution. > > Flemming > > -- > [i855GME] X crashes with kde-4.1.2 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293543 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in "xserver-xorg-video-intel" source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel > > What I report here is probably two ugly X-crash bugs in the new stable > release of kubuntu. The reason why I file a new bug is that they are bugs on > the stable intrepid with new X-packages. > > They make my fujitsu-siemens lifebook laptop absolutelly hopeless to use > after upgrade from Hardy to Intrepid: > > 1) Inpredictable, but frequent x-crashes > The bug seems to identical bug #220019 that was assumed to be solved on > Hardy and earlier releases of intrepid. However, on > xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.4.1 the problem makes X very unstable on my > laptop. > > 2) mplayer full screen video and vlc crashes X > This really ugly as it kills all tty1-7. Your only chance is alternately > using ctrl-alt-backspace and ctrl-alt-delete. > > I didn't experience these bug on Hardy, not even on kde-4.0 remix version. > > I would like to try installing the old Hardy drivers, but they conflict > with the rest of the xorg-core package, so it requires probably that I go > back to Hardy's X-system ... if that is possible. Incidentally, I used the > i810-driver on Hardy. But, the intrepid i810 driver makes the screen go > absolutely crazy with black-white-images passing fastly downward on the > screen. > > I hope I have provided sufficient technical information on the bugs in the > attached file. If anyone would like more information, please tell me. > -- [i855GME] X crashes with kde-4.1.2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293543 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
