Bug#417860: Intel, Xrandr and XV: hard freeze
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
Version: 2:1.9.94-1
Severity: important
There is a severe bug, presumeably in the new video-intel 2.0 driver
under xserver 1.3.
The symptom is that the entire system freezes hard (blanking the
screen at the same time). It is triggered by
- using Xv output (e.g. in vlc or mplayer), or
- running "xrandr --auto" followed by "xrandr -q", or by "xrandr -q --verbose"
This is for xrandr 1.2.0 (xbase-clients 7.2.ds2-1).
Can't say yet if these two triggers are the same bug or different.
The Xv bug also displays a blank blue window in place of the video
window (sometimes it does this without freezing).
The bug is reported upstream (#10466 [1]); this Debian bug will help us track the
status of that bug. Upstream bug #10158 [2] may be related to the Xv
problem.
[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10466
[2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10158
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-intel depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdrm2 2.3.0-1 Userspace interface to kernel DRM
ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.2.99.903-1 X.Org X server -- core server
xserver-xorg-video-intel recommends no packages.
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