Video driver fails on Intel 810 card

[Robert Entner]

Tony Arnold wrote:
> I have a Dell Latitude C.400 laptop which has an Intel 810 grpahics card
> installed. I've upgraded  to Breezy recently and have hit a problem with
> the video driver.
> 
> If I switch from Gnome to console mode with control-alt-F1, and then try
> to go back to Gnome with Alt-F7, the machine hangs and screen goes blank
> and starts changing colours slowly. It's pretty, but annoying!
> 
> The only way out seems to be hit the power switch and reboot.
> 
> I've tried searching archives and the WEB for a solution, but have not
> found anything relevant yet.
> 
> So, has anyone else seen the same problem?
> 
> If so, is there a workaround or should I just submit a bug report?
> 
> If I do submit a bug, and it is recognised as such, is a fix likely to
> be made available for Breezy, or would I be waiting for Dapper? The
> policy on such fixes is not clear to me.
> 
> All help, comments and advice much appreciated.

The i810 driver seems to have some regressions in the Breezy version.
On my system  the colors are distorted in Breezy, Hoary was fine:
http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17284

Switching to a text-console and back fixes the problem, though.

Burt