I tried your procedure and it worked. Great. Thank you very much. 2010/5/1 Elena M. Lopez ("Nena") <lopez.apcl...@gmail.com>
> @pvanderploeg, > I have the same issue with my D400 with the same graphics card. I just > tried the workaround listed in posts #33 and #34 in the following thread, > and it worked for me ( > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1465883&page=4). > > Basically, what I did was as follows: > > Step 1: When booting into the live CD, I pressed Tab, and added the > i915.modeset=1 option to the boot command line. > Refer to thread/post: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9203466&postcount=33 > > Step 2: I installed Lucid with no problems, but when restarted, I of > course ran into the same boot issue. So, I needed to make the changes in > step 1 permanent. > > Step 3: I restarted into the live environment again (as in step 1), mounted > my local root partition, and as root, did two things in the /etc/ directory. > a) permanently added "i915 modeset=1" (w/o quotes) to the grub > configuration file (/etc/default/grub). > Refer to thread/post: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9171045&postcount=11 (as redirected > from http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9203466&postcount=34) > > b)created the configuration file /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf and added > the line "options i915 modeset=1" (w/o quotes) according to the first > workaround listed in this thread: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Lucidi8xxFreezes > > And it now everything works. Finally. And life is good again. If you have > any questions, feel free to PM me through launchpad. Although I am not an > expert, I can at least explain what worked for me, although I couldn't tell > you why. :) > ~Elena > > -- > MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash) > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541511 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in Ubuntu Release Notes: Fix Released > Status in X.org xf86-video-intel: Confirmed > Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” package in Ubuntu: Triaged > Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” source package in Lucid: Triaged > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel > > This is a MASTER bug report, i.e. not a real bug report, but a tool to help > manage other bug reports. > > Most bug reports on i855 are probably due to the CPU/GPU incoherency > problem that is now consolidated upstream at > http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27187 (which was split off > from a bug report for i845). For now, we mark all automatically reported GPU > lockups on i855 as duplicates of this unless there is a reason not to. There > are some tests you may do to help upstream with this issue, and I will come > back with instructions here. For those of you who know how to patch and > compile a kernel you may look at comment #30 (and #6 for what kind of > feedback they want) in the upstream bug report. Actually, if someone could > volunteer to build an ubuntu-packaged kernel with this patch for others to > test, that would be nice. > > There is a similar master bug report for i845 at bug 541492. > > > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-notes/+bug/541511/+subscribe > -- MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541511 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs