Noob Question, so please don't get annoyed!
I upgraded from 15.04 to 16.04 LTS, and now my system reboots often for no reason, doesn't "suspend" etc..
I have a Lenovo with Intel Core i5, and AMD Radeon Graphics. I checked the forums for solutions, but I haven't got a solution. I checked (lshw -c video
) and got the following:
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 09
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:48 memory:d0000000-d03fffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff ioport:5000(size=64)
How do I "use the open source graphics driver" as suggested by Ubuntu Forums?
I am on the verge of downgrading to 15.04 until a proper solution is found and annouced. It's going to be a pain, so I thought I'd ask here before proceeding.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions…
Rajan
Best Answer
I was finally able to fix the i915 problem by updating from kernel 4.4.0-22 to 4.5.1. On my 64 bit machine with ubuntu 16.04 xenial I ran:
DEAR UBUNTU DEVELOPERS, the DRM issue with i915 appears to be fixed as from kernel version 4.5.1. I tried version 4.4.10 and it did not fix the DRM issue. I would appreciate if the changes to DRM in connection with i915 were backported into the official xenial kernel.