8.10 beta dies when I run Firefox, Xorg problem

[Chris G]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 03:59:42PM -0500, Anna EdwARds wrote:
>    > Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 21:55:29 +0100
>    > From: cl at isbd.net
>    > To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>    > Subject: 8.10 beta dies when I run Firefox, Xorg problem
>    >
>    > I have just installed Ubuntu 8.10 beta on a newly put together
>    > computer, it went amazingly smoothly and easily.
>    >
>    > However when I run Firefox the video drivers appear to go bang, it
>    > just dies completely giving me a blank screen. Looking at the Xorg
>    > error file it's obviously lost the plot completely.
>    >
>    > The motherboard is an Intel one with a G45 video chip set.
>    >
>    > Any ideas what to do, get latest versions?
>    >
>    > --
>    > Chris Green
>    >
> 
>    Ok. I know that this may be an obvious no, but what the heck. Are you
>    willing to go with a different web browser? Many alternatives exist.
> 
Well yes, but I don't think it's really a Firefox issue, I think it's
a X issue.  I suspect that *anything* that exercises the video quite
hard will make it fall over.

-- 
Chris Green