[ubuntu-x] Legacy Driver Potential Fix for Lucid i8xx Freezes

[Timo Aaltonen]

On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Melissa Hale wrote:

> I have been experience the GPU freeze problems that are addressed in
> this document.  I am using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and my graphics chipset is:
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation
> 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03).
>
> I
> followed the steps under the first part for "Install the PPA packages"
> and everything went well.  However, when I went on to the next step,
> "Disable KMS," it was not as smooth.  When I entered "gksudo gedit
> /etc/default/grub" a blank page came up in gedit.  I closed that, and
> went directly to the /etc/default folder and found there was no "grub"
> file showing there.
>
> I'm not certain what I should do.  I just installed the 10.04 upgrade
> this afternoon and had not made any changes before the GPU freezes
> began.  I restarted using my 9.04 live CD and was able to
> find this fix.  I restarted back into 10.04 and, as stated, began the
> fix.  I'm not sure why the /etc/default/grub file is not showing.  The freeze happened again after performing the first part of the fix, so I would like to complete the second part. Please advise as to what I need to do to complete the fix.

you need to migrate to grub2, or edit the old file at /boot/grub/menu.lst.



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Timo Aaltonen
Systems Specialist, Aalto IT