Bug#587355: i915: X locks up when trying to play DVD on Thinkpad X40

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> I still have the hardware, in fact it is my DVD player, and the problem
> is no longer present in my daily use.  I am using the kernel
> 2.6.35~rc6-1~experimental.1 and the crash do not happen there.  I test
> with version 2.6.32-38 from squeeze when I get home.

Thanks, Petter!  That's good to hear.

> Now it only crashes when I enable the external VGA output while VLC is
> starting, which I try to remember to avoid. :)

Hm.  Are there any GPU hangs, oopses, or other weird symptoms
associated to that?