Bug#582975: drm/i915: Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Edward Allcutt wrote:

>> On latest squeeze kernel. warzone started seemingly ok but loading a
>> game crashed with an OpenAL error:
>>> AL lib: pulseaudio.c:612: Context did not connect: Access denied
>>
>> Running it again showed a black screen instead of the normal menu,
>> although the mouse cursor was visible and clicking got audible
>> feedback.
>>
>> After killing the game from another tty, the regular "desktop" is
>> visible but with some odd corruption
[...]
>  chipset: 855GM (Montara-GM)
>  xorg-server 2:1.11.3.901-2
>  ddx: intel_drv 2.17.0
>  drm and mesa are presumably 2.4.30-1 and 7.11.2-1 respectively.
>
> If you have time to bisect through the kernels at
> http://snapshot.debian.org/ to find when the fix was introduced (e.g.,
> a good first kernel to try might be 2.6.35), that would be very
> useful.

Would you be interested in pursuing that?  Alternatively if we find
possibly relevant patches to try testing against squeeze, could you
test them?

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

Thanks much,
Jonathan