Bug#245021: xserver-xfree86: X crashes sometimes while i830 driver is loaded, leaves screen unusable and garbled
Thanks. Removing the xscreensaver-gl package seems to have fixed the
problem.
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 01:00:38AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:52:00PM -0500, Michael Olson wrote:
> > Package: xserver-xfree86
> > Version: 4.3.0-7
> > Severity: important
> >
> > Sometimes when the computer [Dell Inspiron i1100 laptop, i830M
> > graphics card] is left unattended for a few hours, X crashes or locks
> > up. This is not heat-related, like some laptop crashes, so it's
> > probably some sort of bug. I've attached the /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> > file from the time of the crash to this message.
> >
> > When the crash occurs, the screen is frozen with the display from
> > XScreensaver, which is always running at the time of the crash.
>
> Yes. A high percentage of all server crash reports we receive happen
> when xscreensaver is running.
>
> Especially when the OpenGL screenhacks are used.
>
> > When I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get back to a terminal, the screen is
> > split into two, and the text is green and smaller than usual.
>
> This is probably because the graphics engine is in a bad state and the
> the driver-specific LeaveVT() logic doesn't succeed in unscrewing it.
>
> All I can suggest as a workaround is to configure xscreensaver to not
> use the screenhacks that seem to cause trouble.
>
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