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["John Anthony Kazos Jr." <541492@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why can't you just put the Intrepid driver back into a PPA somewhere? I
was using that driver for the entire duration of Karmic and it worked
fine, but now obviously it isn't available. I know free is free, but
this is simply unusuable, and thank god it's my off-box I just use for
email and not my main box.

The initial drivers earlier in the cycle would turn my screen on and off
repeatedly, and if I hadn't been sitting right there when it happened,
you would have blown out my screen and I would have had to buy a new
one. The most recent I have been putting up with total X lockups
requiring a hard powerdown (why do they not put reset buttons on
machines nowadays?), and for the past week I have not one single time
gotten up in the morning without having to hard-boot the thing.

Now I just tried the raof/aubergine stuff and all it managed to do was
send my X/gdm into some sort of infinite crashing loop (which is
strange, because before it went into that loop, it correctly displayed
my current desktop image, but before it could draw the toolbars,
kaboom). So now I have to go in and reset the blasted thing.

Just put the Intrepid driver back up. Problem solved. So what if this is
"old" hardware? It's still making the entire operating system completely
unusuable on it, and for how long this has gone on, I doubt I'm the only
one thinking other distributions might be a good idea.

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MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)
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