release 10.04 using kernel 2.6.32-22 generic GNOME 2.30.0
Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device [8086:3582] (rev 02)
Intel Pentium M Processor 1.60GHz
718.1 MiB of memory

It freezes when:
-I watch a Youtube video.
-I do anything graphics related within either Firefox or Chrome.
-Randomly within Firefox or Chrome. Often it will lose focus when typing a message in facebook and then I won't be able to type and I can move the mouse but not be able to click anything. At this point I have to hold the power button and restart.

When I play Metroid Fusion with Visualboy Advance the processor will continually run at 99% until I close the program. It has problems running Breath of Fire using ZSNES emulator while the strategy guide text file is in the background. I used to be able to switch back and forth from the emu to the text file in 9.xx but as soon as I switched to 10.04 I could no longer do so using ZSNES as it will freeze the game graphics. It will not freeze the game however, and it will continue to run until I die in whatever game that I'm in.

I also had the problem where, as soon as I upgraded to 10.04 the system would not boot unless I used the previous Kernel. At least it boots now, which may have been fixed by a recent update or because I employed some of the fixes on this page:


Workaround A did this:
"echo options i915 modeset=1 | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf
sudo update-initramfs -u"
and now that the system was working I wondered if KMS was now a problem for the system so I input this same string again into the terminal but used "modeset =0" instead of "modeset =1". I restarted and there was a big warning about my graphics settings and the system asked me to switch back to default settings, which I did.

I also suspected an x.org GEM leak after reading a post and so I followed these instructions

"sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade"

Which should not have caused any problems.

Anyway thanks ahead of time.