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[Peter Belew <abcruzww@xxxxxxxxx>]

I finally submitted this problem with the vesa driver as bug 414330
half an hour ago, using the ubuntu-bug program.

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Peter Belew<abcruzww@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've been unable to report the bug on the vesa driver - Launchpad
> won't let me report any new bugs!
>
> BTW this system is set up to triple-boot into XP, Ubuntu, and FreeBSD
> 7.1. I just set up Xorg and Gnome on the FreeBSD partition - and the
> vesa driver on that behaves the same way - the system locks up on
> exiting from Gnome. I haven't tried the savage driver on that system,
> if it has one.
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Peter Belew<abcruzww@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Tormod - installing your savage driver solved the problem. After
>> installing it, I disabled Xorg running at runlevel 2 by renaming the
>> symlink to gdm in /etc/rc2.d and restarting the system (with the reset
>> button this time), then booting and determining that 'reboot' works
>> properly from the shell, with Xorg and the vesa driver disabled. I
>> changed 'vesa' to 'savage' in xorg.conf, and tried startx from my user
>> account, and determined that shutdown worked fine. Then I renamed the
>> symlink back again, and rebooted again. After that, I can logout,
>> switch to a console and back, reboot, etc properly.
>>
>> I'll submit that as a bug against the vesa driver. (Actually I didn't
>> try the savage driver that comes with 8.04 LTS - I understand the
>> fixes didn't get into a release before Jaunty).
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Peter Belew<abcruzww@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Thanks, Tormod - I just downloaded
>>>
>>> xserver-xorg-video-savage_2.3.1~git20090813.36ab23a9-0ubuntu0tormod~hardy_i386.deb
>>>
>>> to my laptop ... is that the right one?
>>>
>>> I'll  install it once I get back to that system.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Tormod Volden<bugpost.tormod@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Peter, I updated the Hardy xserver-xorg-video-savage package on
>>>> https://launchpad.net/~tormodvolden/+archive/ppa to the latest version,
>>>> so you can try it (I haven't tested it myself).
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> install failure (regression) with ProSavageDDR graphics chipset
>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217004
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>>>> of the bug.
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

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install failure (regression) with ProSavageDDR graphics chipset
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