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[Geir Ove Myhr <gomyhr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel, I agree that this looks bad and is very annoying for those
that have the affected chipsets. I don't have have the affected
chipsets, so I can't do anything else than guiding the bug reporters
in what to report.

I think one problem with this bug is that none of those that are
affected are very experienced linux users and therefore able to
troubleshoot on their own. What I think is needed is someone bisecting
the kernel and or the intel driver to find the commit(s) that
triggered this. Hopefully, that will give the upstream developers an
idea of what might be wrong. Unfortunately, we haven't seen any
upstream activity on the 845G and 855GM freeze bugs that we have
reported so far.

To me this sound like a serious problem that both Canonical and Intel
(and Mandriva, etc.) should have high on their priority list. It
doesn't look like it is the case, though.

> I can't believe that
> Canonical would have no better response than "Wait till Lucid, it might
> just possibly run on your stock Dell system without freezing."

Have you seen this response anywhere? So far I haven't seen any
response from Canonical at all on this problem. Indeed, I would expect
that unless a linux user does some more investigation to get this bug
fixed, it will still be present in Lucid. Sad but true.

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[i845G] Display freezes (except for mouse pointer) without warning
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/484020
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