So, using vesa all has been good, today there was an intel 9xx update, has anyone been brave enough to try it and have a good working GUI again - without using the inadequate vesa rubbish? <div class="gmail_quote"> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Nick Edwards <<a href="mailto:nick.z.edwards@gmail.com">nick.z.edwards@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi there, Just upgraded from hard to lucid, was impressed, after my video started working, I have one of those intel chips ubuntu devs don't care about it seems. 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) Anyway, I managed to get it booting into GUI so I can log in, all is good, until I try play any video file, the pc hard locks up, requiring hard power off/on This as you all know is NOT good for disks! So, I'm hoping before I wreck another HDD (hardy never ever hibernated when low battery, that bug got me many times), has anyone seen/resolved this horrible bug? I have all the required gstream* plugins and ubuntu-restricted-extras installed, this all worked fine on hardy. Google shows others having this problem too with no resolve. My only kernel log messages seems to be [drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung render error detected, EIR: 0x00000000 [drm:i915_do_wait_request] *ERROR* i915_do_wait_request returns -5 (awaiting 375751 at 375750) In messages I also see and assume it is related pulseaudio[8348]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting. pulseaudio[8348]: main.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoServer: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-nGO551cCUf: Connection refused pulseaudio[8348]: ratelimit.c: 11 events suppressed bonobo-activation-server (noel-8403): could not associate with desktop session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-nGO551cCUf: Connection refused I stress, it is a hard lockup, I can not switch to console, the machine also is not ssh'ble nor pingable when this happens, not very good , I thought I left the one-program-crashes-entire-pc when I left Windows Any suggestions will be very much appreciated. Please no offense, but I do not need replies or comments from the likes of Karl Larsen, who in my time here never really contributes anything but confusion. Thanks again Nicky </blockquote></div>