[CoLoCo] Video problem with Intel Brookdale video card at a school district

[Jerry Windsor]

Our school district did a global deployment of Lucid in both a dual boot and Ubuntu only boot on almost every computer with have.  We now have a pretty good sized problem for our limited knowledge.

We have a couple hundred computers with a Intel Brookdale video card that seem to get a black screen and the system is frozen and I am not able to ssh in.  I can not even get a return on ping.  The resolve we have to power off and back on.

In our research we found this article https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Lucidi8xxFreezes.  We have tried workarounds A, and E.  If we use workaround B, the computer freezes on startup.  It appears to be when it loads the xorg.conf file.

Here copy of my lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
05:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VM (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 81)

I anyone might have some ideas of ways that we can solve this problem any input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Jerry Windsor
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