Bug#616086: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Arbitrarily crashes X

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Wed, Mar  2, 2011 at 13:06:54 +0100, Enno Deimel wrote:

> Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
> Version: 2:2.3.2-2+lenny8

This doesn't correspond to the version in your log file below.  Which is
it?

> Severity: important
> 
> Video driver spontaneously kills xorg (without apparent causative user interaction).  Could be severe if occurring with other hardware as well.
> 
> Furthermore the driver seems to "grab" video and not releasing it again:  black screen apparently unresponsive to mouse or keyboard -- in fact the system is listening on console but one has to type blind.
> 
[...]
> Kernel version (/proc/version):
> Linux version 2.6.30.bootlogd (2.6.30) (root@mash) (gcc version 4.3.4 (Debian 4.3.4-6) ) #1 Fri Sep 3 18:13:12 CEST 2010
> 
What is this kernel?  Is the issue reproducible with the standard Debian
kernel?

Cheers,
Julien