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[Geir Ove Myhr <gomyhr@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have compiled three Ubuntu Jaunty kernel packages based on Brian
Rogers' findings upstream for bug 456902 (similar to this but for 845G
chipset) and made them available at http://www.kvante.info/845Gfreeze/ .
They may also work in Karmic, but I'm not sure. This may turn out to be
the same problem as bug 456902, and if it is the freezetest1 kernel
should not trigger the freezes, while the freezetest9 kernel should. I
have also made freezetest8 which is the commit before freezetest9. If
this works and freezetest9 doesn't, we know what the bad commit is and
upstream can hopefully use that to fix this bug. If freezetest8 also
freezes there is some more bisecting to do.

In order to test the kernels, it is enough to download the linux-
image*.deb packages. (the linux-headers packages are not necessary for
testing). They install side-by-side with the each other and the other
packages on your system, so you can download all three to a folder and
do an `dpkg -i linux-image*.deb`. You can then choose which kernel to
test in the Grub boot menu. When you are done testing you may remove the
test kernels with `dpkg -P linux-image-2.6.30-freezetest1 linux-
image-2.6.30-freezetest8 linux-image-2.6.30-freezetest9`.

I may set up a wiki page for reporting test results, but for now feel
free to report the results in a comment here.

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[i855GM] Freeze shortly after X startup on Intel i855
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