Intel 845 Chipset, Lucid, Stability problems.

[linuxrockz]

Hi everyone,

I am facing some serious problems randomly with lucid.

1. Sometimes when I try to shutdown my computer the display becomes filled with pixels of different colors as shown in the image (The problem is very random so I was not able to take a photo, I tried to recreate the effect using GIMP). Then the display turns off (Analog power saving mode) But my system never turns off.

2. While working on my computer the display sometimes goes kaput and blinks as in the second image. It stops responding completely I am not even able to go to terminal (Ctrl + Alt + F1). Leaving me with no option but to use the reset button. Causing me to loose all the work in progress.

3. Firefox responds very slowly upon closing it takes 5-6 seconds for the window to close.

Lucid Works like a charm on my laptop though.

Please help me I am in a fix.
I don't want to go back to karmic or use the vesa driver.
Please tell me if there is any way out.

PS:- KMS is also disabled in my system. Enabling it didn't improve stability.
and here is the output of my videocard (lshw)

*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:d8000000-dfffffff(prefetchable) memory:e0100000-e017ffff


Thanks in advance.

[linuxrockz]

Hi just wanted to inform that I faced the problem twice after posting the thread.
Both times during startup just after the plymouth screen.

It is getting on my nerves.
Please help.

[linuxrockz]

Well now my computer wont boot to gui and I need my computer now for my studies. I would have gladly waited for some more time but I can't wait any more. So am installing karmic

I am sorry and I sincerely hope that in a few months these issues would be fixed. Will try lucid again after 3-4 months.

[elianthony]

I'm experiencing these issues with the graphics as well. Has anyone figured this out?

[mikewhatever]

Nobody ever reads the release notes.

[RJQ]

For now is a no go with this card, is been there for a while and seems is not going to go, the fix is now expected from upstream in the xorg people but it is very unlikely to happen. (because the fix could mess up apparently new software running well in different hardware) now it can be a little polished and make the system more stable (I am using arch with newer kernel now with more stability but the crashes still present).

and in fact the release notes tells this problem. you can follow the numerous bugs in launchpad or if you guys want a stable workable computer return to the previous ubuntu that was working in your machines. unfortunately that is the truth for now. good luck.