nasty display bugs

[Aere Greenway]

On 11/06/2014 11:28 AM, Walter Lapchynski wrote:
> Ian's bug is apparently i810? On 14.10, no kernel module being used.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1385920
>
> Aere's bug is i915 I think. On 14.04, with i915 kernel module, I think.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1389904
>
> My guess is these are different. They do have the same results
> apparently. We need to figure out if the same bug affects both chips
> (in which case we have a duplicate) or if this is something else
> entirely.
>
> We also need to figure out which chips this affects. Saying "old
> Intel" isn't descriptive enough, really.
Walter:

In my bug report, I included more detailed information, gotten from the 
Compac DeskPro machine, copied here below:

An lspci command on this machine yields the following information:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82815 Chipset Graphics Controller (CGC) (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.4 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev 02)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller (rev 01)
02:09.0 USB controller: NEC Corporation OHCI USB Controller (rev 43)
02:09.1 USB controller: NEC Corporation OHCI USB Controller (rev 43)
02:09.2 USB controller: NEC Corporation uPD72010x USB 2.0 Controller (rev 04)
02:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 06)
02:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev 06)

sysinfo yields the following information about the graphics card:

VGA compatible controller
       Intel Corporation 82815 Chipset Graphics Controller (CGC) (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
       Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Device 001a

-- 
Sincerely,
Aere