Hello Christy,

as an Farnell FSE i've been learning and using E-14 since my registration.

I still do have a problem with my profile : http://www.element-14.com/community/people/gschattmann?view=profile

As you can see under topic: "About me" i've put in a bunch of informations my customers may be interested in.

Problem:   All the information is only in one big block since the system does ignore "space, tabs and CRs "

                Even HTML commands do not work.

                I really like to design my profile more "reader-friedly"     

Any suggestions for that issue ?

b.r.   Goetz

I think it is pretty easy to use. But there is no help option.

Romilly, thanks for the report.

I'm guessing that there is something going on in the mix of media at the site that is triggering a bad intereaction between my video driver, the X server, and the kernel. The system is a stock Dell 2400 that was recently wiped clean and given a clean install of Ubuntu. Aside from a handful of developer toys (mostly a bunch of cross-builds of GCC) it is pretty much a bug standard installation. That said, the 2400 uses an integrated video device on the motherboard that is apparently the cause of numerous bug reports at the Ubuntu support fora.

On my system, lspci -nn | grep VGA says "00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82835G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device [8086:2562] (rev 01)". I'm guessing you have different graphics hardware.

This is quite frustrating to debug as the crash takes the kernel with it, and I haven't managed to get even a core dump to stick around, let alone get Apport to notice and help file a real incident report.

Hi Christy,

I have noticed that the performance of the website has been sluggish lately (for me) when trying to navigate throughout your website.

Also, I had a hard time logging in yesterday ... I kept receiving this error message:

Service Unavailable - DNS failure

The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later.

Reference #11.bea2d740.1281478432.bf4f67

Do you publish the times when the system is being worked on ... or is it random?

Has anyone else experienced any problems?

Other than that, you're doing great ... I usually check in at least once a day.

Thanks,

Gregory

Just thought I'd close the loop on this issue, since I found the problem.

Apparently, some of the ubuntu support fora out there are suggesting changing a parameter that controls Kernel Mode Setting in the intel i915 video driver (the one that supports the whole family of chipsets including the chipset on my motherboard). Unfortunately, some of those forum posts are naming the parameter to set incorrectly. With the parameter name misspelled, it doesn't take effect, and the bug it is attempting to work around is not worked around. And then, e14 crashes the video driver for reasons I have not diagnosed.

In short, any advice to set the i915 "modset" option should be understood to be advice to use the "modeset" option instead.

I discovered this by noticing an error message in the output of dmsg that seemed suspicious, and then seeing that same message appear as the last words the kernel said to a netconsole as it crashed. At that point, I googled for the actual error message which led to the discovery of the typo.