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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #715096
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 715096

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Aside from testing the newer upstream kernel, I've also prepared this PPA with a change to the X driver that is believed to fix some of these gpu lockups on i915/i945:

https://launchpad.net/~bryce/+archive/fig

Please give it a try. When you do, make sure to boot against the stock ubuntu kernel. Otherwise we won't be sure whether it is this ppa or the upstream kernel that fixes it.

The upside to getting proof that this PPA solves it, is that we may be able to get this fix into natty, whereas if it is only fixed by newer kernel code, we still need to isolate what patch in the kernel does it. And, this late in the cycle we likely won't be able to get kernel fixes in so they'll have to be processed as SRUs.