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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please keep the inflammatory statements to a minimum, this is a bug
tracker not a forum.

Really, this bug is basically a dupe of 541511, and documented in both
the release notes and the Ubuntu-X wiki.  For anyone still uncertain if
it is recognized as a priority by Canonical, here is a post by a
Canonical manager:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/563277/comments/1

The fact is that 8xx support in the Intel driver has been quite buggy
for a long time, and there have proven to be no settings which fixed it
for all users.  What fixes it for one set of users makes things worse
for another.  To top it off, while you would think i855 is a common
graphics card, we had only a scant number of 8xx volunteers doing
testing, which has made supporting this hardware in Ubuntu extremely
challenging.  There have been suggestions that Ubuntu should drop
support for 8xx since it is difficult to get upstream to give priority
to issues, but personally I'm not a fan of that option.  Still,
ultimately we're dependent on upstream's work to resolve the issues and
thus are gated by what they see as support priorities.

Also be aware that any changes to KMS blacklisting requires a rebuild of
the kernel across all architectures and flavors.  As you can understand,
this is a very time consuming process.

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[i855] 10.04 rc boots into black/blank screen
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/568779
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