Bug#689268: Intel HD 4000 (Ivy Bridge) graphics freeze

[Per Foreby <per@foreby.se>]

On 2012-11-03 09:14, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Could you try 3.3~rc6-1~experimental.1?  (I expect it will also work
> fine, but there's always a chance that we could get lucky and narrow
> down the range by a lot.)

As you expected, two days without problems.

> If it works ok, here are instructions for testing 3.3-rc6 with drm code
> from 3.2:
>
>   0. prerequisites
> 	apt-get install git build-essential
>
>   1. get the kernel history, if you don't already have it
> 	git clone \
> 	  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
>
>   2. configure, build, test
> 	cd linux
> 	git checkout v3.3-rc6
> 	cp /boot/config-$(uname -r) .config; # current configuration
> 	scripts/config --disable DEBUG_INFO
> 	make localmodconfig; # optional: minimize configuration
> 	make deb-pkg; # optionally with -j<num> for parallel build
> 	dpkg -i ../<name of package>; # as root
> 	reboot
>
>      Hopefully it works fine.  So
>
>   3. try drm code from 3.2
> 	cd linux
> 	git checkout v3.2 -- include/drm drivers/gpu/drm
> 	make deb-pkg; # maybe with -j4
> 	dpkg -i ..<name of package>; # as root
> 	reboot
>
>      Hopefully it reproduces the bug.

Unfortunately this has so far been stable for two days.

I'll keep running it to see if the bug just takes longer to show with 
this combo.

/Per