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problem with i865G in Ubuntu 8.10 & 9.04

Asked by Ubulindy on 2009-09-28

Ive been running Ubuntu 8.04 for some time now with no issues. Ive installed 8.10 both fresh & auto several times, and recently again, 1st by installing 8.10, then 9.04. In 9.04, as soon as I got the first kernel update, I could not get to the login screen, had a black screen, then it produced a colored bar screen, and booting into safe mode did not help. I had to then uninstall, and do a fresh install again, losing ALL my data. This seems to be a bug involving the intel 82865G ( i810 driver/integrated chipset ). Will these issues be resolved by the time the next LTS is out?? To add to this issue, I have the Acer X173W flat panel with a res of 1440X900/16:10 and again, as soon as I get the first kernel update, I lose the res, and can only have the highest res of 1280X768. Unfortunately I cant provide alot of info due to the fact I couldnt get to any screen, here is my system info:

H/W path Device Class ===================== />=====================================
/> system Dimension 3000
0N6381
64KiB BIOS
processor Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.53GHz
16KiB L1 cache
256KiB L2 cache
1GiB System Memory
512MiB DIMM SDRAM Synchronous 333
512MiB DIMM SDRAM Synchronous 333
82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-
82865G Integrated Graphics Contro
82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI
82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI
82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI
82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI
82801 PCI Bridge
NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Eth
communication FA82537EP 56K V.92 Data/Fax Modem
BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Co
82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controlle
82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Inter
82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Contr
80GB ST380011A
71GiB EXT3 volume
2957MiB Extended partition
2957MiB Linux swap / Solaris part
CD-ROM SC-148
CD-RW GCE-8483B
82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Con
multimedia 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Aud
Wireless interface

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Last query:: 2009-09-29

Last reply:: 2009-09-29

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Simon Déziel (sdeziel) said on 2009-09-28:

If you encounter a bug in a kernel update you don't need to reinstall your OS. You only need to make sure to tell grub (the boot loader) to boot on the old kernel. By default Ubuntu always leaves old kernels installed for that purpose. If you don't want to select the right kernel at every boot you just have to edit the grub menu to set the default boot entry. See /boot/grub/menu.lst and change the default parameter.

You should continue to do your kernel upgrades and always test the latest and fall back to the last working one. The kind of bug you have can also be related to the package xserver-xorg-video-intel.

Good luck.

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Ubulindy (ubulindy) said on 2009-09-29:

I did exactly what you said b4 I did the reinstall. None of them worked, I still was unable to get past the grub, all of them went to a black screen. And yes, I did read some of the bugs with the xserver-xorg-video-intel, and it was what I am describing, but nothing I did seemed to have any consequences. At one point i thought my integrated chipset finally bit the dust, but it wasnt the case. Ill stick with 8.04 until all of this is sorted, since this problem with intel seems to be pretty ongoing. Most of what I read, the others had stated they too got to the grub, and still couldnt load another kernel Thanks for your help tho..