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xserver-xorg-driver-i810 package

  1. Bug #29880
  2. Comment #40

Comment 40 for bug 29880

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Antoine Benoit-Janin (antoinebj) wrote : Re: X hangs and doesn't release the console

Same problem and Lukas' fix works for me.
My notebook is a Uniwill 259EN3 (same as Alienware Area-51 m5500).
I'm glad that the severity is deemed critical.

I might add that setting SWcursor to on in the xorg.conf allows the X server to start, but the display is corrupted. See:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=154774