Bug#439276: idesk: X11/Xorg testing crash with intel driver 865G hardware.
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 21:44:12 -0400, Bill Pringlemeir wrote:
> On 26 Aug 2007, jcristau@debian.org wrote:
>
> > Does the problem also happen if you don't load the intelfb kernel
> > driver?
>
> Sorry, I had read this briefly and thought you said to not use the
> "intel" Xorg driver. I have intelfb built into my kernel. So I used
> "video=intelfb:off", I think that does the same thing.
>
> I have been using this for a while and the crash does not seem to
> re-occur. The crash is not consistent, so I can not fully know if the
> problem is gone or just more rare. I have started and stopped X about
> 20 times. Usually, it would occur after 4-5 attempts and rarely about
> 10 (with the intelfb in use on ttys).
>
Somehow I'm not surprised. The interaction between intelfb and the X
driver is a mess, and it's probably not an X driver bug. Do you think
we can close this bug if the crash isn't reproducible without intelfb?
Cheers,
Julien
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