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Stubborn Intel Graphics Bug Haunts Ubuntu 12.04

Posted by timothy on from the stupid-ghosts dept.

jones_supa writes "The current long-term support version of Ubuntu (12.04) has been experiencing a remarkably tough-to-crack and widely affecting bug related to laptops using an Intel graphics solution. When the lid is closed, every now and then the desktop freezes and only the mouse cursor can be moved. Compiz is usually found hung in the process, switching to a VT afterwards works. The Freedesktop guys are also informed. Have Slashdotters been bitten by this bug and possibly could offer some detective work to help the OSS community find and apply the correct fix?"

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  1. What they are actually reporting an Issue. by jellomizer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have been reporting that problem for a while, but they just assume that I am an idiot who just doesn't know how to use a computer.

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    1. Re:What they are actually reporting an Issue. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      but they just assume that I am an idiot who just doesn't know how to use a computer.

      And this is why Linux will never be more than just an "alternative" desktop OS. Because its user base is always assumed to just KNOW how everything works, and if you pose a question that some neckbeard thinks is "stupid", he'll let you know it, and you'll be the focal point of mockery and derision. Linux needs to stop being that exclusive club for the cool kids and know-it-alls and start being a more user-oriented (rather than developer-oriented) community.

      The Linux community needs a drastic culture-change before it's ready to compete on any meaningful level with Windows and OS X.

      Oh, and I WILL be modded down for this, and it WILL validate my point even more.

    2. Re:What they are actually reporting an Issue. by Skapare · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Problems like this are the result of closed drivers. Hardware manufacturers need to make their hardware interfaces open (keeping internal firmware closed is OK in this regard) and need to make all code that runs in the host CPU anywhere all open source.

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    3. Re:What they are actually reporting an Issue. by h4rr4r · · Score: 1, Insightful

      You won't be modded down on modern slashdot but you should be.

      What you are saying is not Insightful nor Interesting. It is blindingly obvious. If users want hand holding, they will have to pay for it like they do with OSX and Windows.

    4. Re:What they are actually reporting an Issue. by Robert+Zenz · · Score: 4, Insightful

      As far as I know, you don't get hand-holding with a purchase of Windows. Not sure about OSX.

    5. Re:What they are actually reporting an Issue. by Qzukk · · Score: 3, Insightful

      +5 informative.

      Everything here goes into git (etckeeper), since then nothing has mysteriously stopped working on a restart because we know exactly who and when "nobody" touched something and screwed it up and how to undo it.

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  2. Re:Hunger hurts more by jedidiah · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ...except what we're talking about her is superficial fluff that adds no functional value to the product. It's there to be pretty and make things seem more Mac-like or Windows-like.

    A lot of this stuff was old news by the 90s. Some of us got bored with it LONG before the rest of your lot got fixated on it.

    Some of us are more enlightened than others... '-p

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