Major bug in intel xserver driver on ubuntu 10.10

[Chris Sherlock]

Liam wrote:

> I've noticied that if you disable font antialiasing on ubuntu 10.10 and attempt to display
> some large text, your xserver will die. This only affects the intel driver. Obvously this takes
> all the x clients with it and destroys any work you happen to be doing at the time.
>
> I reported the bug to:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/696957
>
> but I've heard nothing further. Where do I go from here? I'd really like to get this bug fixed.
> There's even a patch on my bug report that fixes the bug.
>
> Thanks
> Liam

If you think that's bad, my system won't even boot because I have a
Radeon Mobility X1400 in my Dell Inspiron and I get a GPU lockup at
startup due to a memory barrier issue. Boots every 3rd time to gdm,
but when it does and I try to login it locks up again and I'm forced
to reboot with an older kernel.

I reported the bug to:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/693754

Also reported it upstream:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org//show_bug.cgi?id=32662

So far, no responses, and this one is by far more critical than an
anti-aliasing issue... I can't even use my laptop and (ugh...) have
had to boot into Vista :(

Chris