[Bug 774999] Re: [i865G] Upgrade should warn user about lack of support for old 8xx intel hardware

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Title:
  [i865G] Upgrade should warn user about lack of support for old 8xx
  intel hardware

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  [Problem]
  Support for 8xx chipsets is dodgy at best, due to insufficient upstream testing/development/priorities.  Users frequently experience regressions and problems, which they find annoying.

  For distro maintenance, we typically prioritize development work
  around 915 and higher, and recommend owners of older hardware work
  directly with upstream filing bugs at bugzilla.freedesktop.org rather
  than launchpad.

  This bug report requests a warning be presented to users on 8xx intel
  chips that they may be on their own if they run into problems unique
  to 8xx, and so should do ample testing on their own using livecds and
  whatnot before risking an upgrade.

  10.04 LTS was the last release where we gave priority to 8xx issues
  and did development/fixup work on it, and so 8xx owners must be
  cautious upgrading beyond that.  Upstream still does some limited
  maintenance work for 8xx, so Ubuntu may well work fine (so
  blacklisting 8xx is not suitable) but if it doesn't, we are not open
  to backporting upstream fixes or introducing tweaks to fix 8xx issues.
  Our experience has been that when we do this, we risk fixing it for
  one system but breaking several others...

  [Original Report]
  Posted from the X11 recovery session.

  None of the sessions works (except the recovery session, but that doesn't count) after upgrade from Maverick to Natty:
  - Ubuntu : a dialog box says the hadware is does not accept Unity, then screen is garbled (reboot from linux console)
  - Ubuntu Classic : screen is garbled  (reboot from linux console)
  - Ubuntu Classic (no effects) : system freeze

  Why the upgrade did not warn me about the lack of support for this
  hardware? I would not have upgraded. Or tested with the live CD.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
  CompositorRunning: None
  DRM.card0.VGA.1:
   status: connected
   enabled: enabled
   dpms: On
   modes: 1680x1050 1280x1024 1280x1024 1280x960 1152x864 1024x768 1024x768 1024x768 832x624 800x600 800x600 800x600 800x600 640x480 640x480 640x480 640x480 720x400
   edid-base64: AP///////wBMLQwDMjJFTQgSAQMOLx54KtUVpFVJmicUUFS/74CzAIGAgUBxTwEBAQEBAQEBfC6QoGAaHkAwIDYA2igRAAAaAAAA/QA4Sx5RDgAKICAgICAgAAAA/ABTeW5jTWFzdGVyCiAgAAAA/wBIUzNRMjEyOTE1CiAgAEY=
  Date: Sun May  1 18:54:42 2011
  DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-05-01 15:06:44.795705
  DistroCodename: natty
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  DkmsStatus:
   virtualbox-ose, 4.0.4, 2.6.38-8-generic, i686: installed
   virtualbox-ose, 4.0.4, 2.6.35-28-generic, i686: installed
  GraphicsCard:
   Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2572] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company D530 sff(dc578av) [103c:12bc]
  Lsusb:
   Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
   Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
   Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
   Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
  MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP d530 SFF(DG059T)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=fr_FR:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=5f7f6055-15cd-4412-bf5e-a49fcf303fe7 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  Renderer: Unknown
  SourcePackage: xorg
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-01 (0 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 07/10/2003
  dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  dmi.bios.version: 786B2 v1.11
  dmi.board.name: 085Ch
  dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: CZC4161ZSK
  dmi.chassis.type: 4
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr786B2v1.11:bd07/10/2003:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPd530SFF(DG059T):pvr:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn085Ch:rvr:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct4:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: HP d530 SFF(DG059T)
  dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110415-0ubuntu2
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu6
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu4
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu7
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu7

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