X Server randomly won't start with Intel 945GM

[CaptainCookie]

Hi,

I have mentioned this before in an old topic, but with the upcoming release of 2008.2 I hope there is a solution for this yet.

If I boot my laptop (Toshiba Satellite A100) with an Intel 945GM graphics chip, the X server randomly won't start. I'm left with a blinking cursor, without any error messages. I guess there will be a log file somewhere, but I don't know where.

This problem exists since 2008.0; 2008.1 didn't solve anything and 2008.2 beta stopped the X server from crashing while it was already running, so it's a start

I noticed that I have a really better chance of getting the X server to start if I select 'Opnieuw koppelen' (Dutch) in the GRUB menu with F3, which is the 3th option, next to 'Standard' and 'Failsafe'

Does anyone have a solution? 

[PhiX]

According to this bug report, it could be related to cpufreq.
http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=7659

[tuxedup]

Indeed it is.  Cpufreq screws things up for me.

Adding    Option "FramebufferCompression" "false"   to device section of xorg.conf fixes things;

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

look for [device]

add the line to the bottom of the section.

Press ctrl x and enter y followed by enter.

Now reboot and you should be ok.