Bug#587355: i915: X locks up when trying to play DVD on Thinkpad X40
Hi Petter,
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> I ran into this on a freshly installed Thinkpad X40 with todays
> Debian/Squeeze. The external VGA connector is connected to a video
> projector. I plugged in a USB DVD player, installed libdvdcss2 and
> tried to play the DVD using vlc. This caused X to lock up and the
> kernel to report a crash.
[...]
> Before the crash, the VGA output would flicker a lot whenever the
> machine was doing anything (like I moved the mouse or installed a
> package), and the image would only stand still when I did not move the
> mouse. This seem similar to the bug report
> <URL: http://bugs.debian.org/570696 >, but I am not sure if it is the
> same one.
>
> [250593.916039] [drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung
Thanks. I like to imagine this was fixed by (kernel or userspace :/)
changes in later squeeze point releases. Do you still experience it?
[...]
> As this is my video playing machine, I'll reinstall it with Lenny soon
> to get my DVD player back, but thought it best to report the problem
> before I reverted the machine into a working condition. Is there
> anything I should test before I do this?
Sorry for the slow response. Debian Live might be a good way to test,
if this machine is still using Lenny for everyday tasks.
Regards,
Jonathan
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