[Bug 318494] Re: [i845G] xserver locks up

[Randy Wilson]

First, note about my previous comment. I CAN move the mouse. Clicking
does nothing, but the cursor moves.

I restarted with the options as mentioned above (default settings except
for DontZap). I did this twice. Both times I was able to type one key
before the lockup. The first time I just typed a character. Pretty
boring. The second time, I did the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. This restarted
GDM (which might mean it restarted X). It was locked up when it came
back. Perfect GDM screen, no garbage. Couldn't type a thing. Still could
move the mouse, no clicks registered. Also, the Caps Lock and Num Lock
keys did not toggle the appropriate lights.

One point I thought I'd make. This bug was created so that the Ubuntu
installer might set an option during setup so users with Intel 845g
chips would get a working install. Not necessarily about fixing the
underlying problem with the driver. Although that is a worthy goal. The
issue may be fixed in Intel's 2.6.0 release of the driver. I couldn't
try it because the build requires a version of lbdrm that is not
available in Jaunty. It is available in Debian Experimental, but I
wasn't THAT motivated to compile 2.6.0.

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[i845G] xserver locks up
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