Intel graphics

[Derek Broughton]

Mike McGinn wrote:

> 
> On Thursday 28 May 2009 01:58:05 pm Derek Broughton wrote:
>> I'm please to be able to report that following a fairly unrelated issue,
>> I installed a 2.6.30-6 kernel from the Karmic repository, the 2.7.1
>> xserver-
>> xorg-video-intel driver from  http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main, and
>> enabled UXA in my xorg.conf and the graphics seem to be working well,
>> now. Don't know how reliable it is, and still don't have dual screens,
>> but it's the best I've had for a long time.
>>
>> See: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSetting

> I was planning to revert to 8.10 this weekend from 8.04. 

>From 9.04, perhaps?  "Reverting" from 8.04 to 8.10 seems masochistic in the 
extreme! :-)

> Perhaps I'll try this first. Please keep us posted as to your results.
> 
There's one small glitch I've found so far (already reported by somebody 
else as a bug).  It breaks suspend on multiple monitors for some reason.  
You can suspend fine, but you can't resume.  I can live with that.
-- 
derek