Bug#478999: xserver-xorg-video-intel: "Error in I830WaitLpRing()" on 855GM while web browsing

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Andrew Moise wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
> Version: 2:2.2.99.901-1
> Severity: normal
>
>   Today I got a crash while doing not much of anything (just browsing
> the web in Iceweasel); my screen became unresponsive, and on sshing in
> from another machine I found "Error in I830WaitLpRing()" in the log and
> no running X process.
>   This happened within an hour (of X usage) or so of upgrading
> xserver-xorg-core from version 2:1.4.1~git20080131-3 to version
> 2:1.4.1~git20080131-4.  With version 2:1.4.1~git20080131-3 I hadn't seen
> crashes like this in quite some time.  Looking over the changelist, I
> can't quite imagine that that upgrade is actually the cause of the
> brokenness unless something else is screwy, but anyway that's how it
> happened.
>   

Still the same problem with intel 2.3.2 ? What if you enable XAA instead
of EXA ?

Brice