Intrepid - brown desktop only!

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:58:46 -0400
Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com> wrote:

> I upgraded to 8.10 from 8.04.
> 
> Reboot, X came up, logged in...only to get a blank brown desktop, no 
> toolbars or anything aside from the mouse pointer.
> 
> I ended up logging in through SSH from a notebook Mac, installing
> xfce, reboot, log into that session, uninstall all compiz components
> from synaptic, then logging off and back in to gnome.
> 
> My desktop came up sans Compiz effect.
> 
> Profiler states I have an Intel 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE chipset 
> integrated controller from Dell (device 0126) with 128 meg of memory.
> 
> Anyone else run into this or know of a fix to get compiz working
> again? Proprietary drivers utility is saying that I'm not running
> anything that can be enabled.
> 

sounds like one of these...

From the release notes at
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/810 , 

here is a bug in the Intel video driver for the older intel 830 and 845
integrated video cards that are used on laptops like the IBM R30.
Desktop effects with compiz will not work on those chips and will
freeze the system. 


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