10.04 crashes

[Greg Bair]

On 05/12/2010 07:28 PM, dbclinton wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm experiencing serious crashes (three or four a day) on my new
> edubuntu 10.04 install. This is the third fresh install I've done - on
> two separate hard drives - and the problem persists. With no clear
> trigger, the screen will go blank, followed by strange black and white
> patterns and then the monitor will lose its signal. These will cycle
> through indefinitely. Interestingly, while my computer (a thin client
> server) is affected, the thin clients themselves can continue working
> for half and hour after the crash.
> Here is the relevant log output:
>
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> I appreciate your help!
> David
>
>    
I'm guessing you have an intel i915 chipset on your graphics card.  This 
is a known issue that I've been dealing with.  My fix was to go back to 
9.04, the last version that doesn't do this.  However, the X and kernel 
team are trying to figure it out.

It has to do with the way the kernel (or the xserver) is writing to the 
graphics card.  Something's getting borked.