Computing Duck

I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on one of my old XP boxes (which I’d planned to use mostly as an NAS and downloader) when I ran into this crash every 30 or so minutes. This a known bug for the Intel 8xx chipsets which you can read about here.

I’ve since installed Brian Rogers’s Lucid Lynx graphics fix for the chipset with

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:brian-rogers/graphics-fixes-testing
sudo apt-get update

before installing the packages from the synaptics package manager. Then I switched from gdm to lxdm, and I haven’t had a problem since.