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[Geir Ove Myhr <gomyhr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for filing a 855GM freeze bug report with Lucid. I have missed
that. We have several for Karmic(bug 378147, bug 423663, bug 447892, bug
477256, bug 477972, bug 484412, and bug 496187), but have missed Lucid
testing. I would like to gather some logs and additional information
from you and then we can send it upstream. Hopefully, a bug report with
more recent software will receive more attention upstream.

It would be nice if you could install Lucid on a partition, since that
will allow you to test different kernels. The other tests should be
doable with a USB stick.

Test 1: Install the packages from the xorg-edgers PPA [1]. There are
instructions for how to do it with a USB-stick. Get a batchbuffer dump
according to the instructions on [2] (use the DebugFlushCaches option
described there). In order to do all this you will probably need boot
the USB in safe mode, then choose netroot (have ethernet network, not
wireless), install openssh-server so that you can ssh in, make the
xorg.conf with DebugFlushCaches option, install xorg-egers using the
script, and then finally start gdm with `start gdm`. Then make org
freeze and you can get the batchbuffer dump. While you are logged in you
can also do a `apport-collect 511001` in order to upload log files to
this bug report.

If installing xorg-edgers above stops the freezing, we will try and
identify the fix and get it into Lucid.

Test 2 (requires install): In addition to xorg-edgers, try the two
mainline kernels [3,4] 2.6.33-rc4 and the newest one in the drm-intel-
next folder. Report if this freezes or not. It is possible that another
batchbuffer dump is useful for these cases.

Test 3 (requires install): Test the kernels with 599 and 600 from [5]
and if they boot with Lucid, check if 600 freezes and 599 does not.

[1]: https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa
[2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/Freeze
[3]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/MainlineBuilds
[4]: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/
[5]: http://www.kvante.info/855GMfreeze/

** Tags added: 855gm freeze lucid

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 [i855GM] Lucid Freeze shortly after X startup on Intel i855
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/511001
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