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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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