Ubuntu fixes Karmic kernel-mode-setting graphics bug for Intel chips (and renders me a happy Karmic user)

Posted by Steven_Rosenber on Nov 26, 2009 4:52 PM EDT
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Somewhere between the debut of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala for those into animal names) and today, the developers/maintainers/overlords of what many consider the leading Linux distribution have fixed the dreaded "kernel mode setting bug" that rendered the X Window system on many computers using Intel video hardware unusable until kernel mode setting was turned off.

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