Bug#502387: complete system hangup
severity 502387 important
retitle 502387 [G4X] complete system hang
kthxbye
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 08:48:12 +0200, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> Since some days, maybe since the upgrade from xserver-xorg-core
> from 2:1.4.2-6 to 2:1.4.2-7, the system has a total hangup when
> I specify to use the intel driver in xorg.conf.
>
> It runs fine without specification, in which case xorg choses
> vesa (that`s why I report the bug for the intel package).
>
There's a reason we don't use the intel driver on cantiga by default.
It seems the problems got tracked down recently though, see below.
> As seen below, I have the Intel Cantiga chipset runnin on the
> Lenovo X200.
>
> This happens with plain debian kernel (2.6.26) and also with
> 2.6.27-rc6.
>
The patches at [1] and [2] might help.
d-k: can we get the kernel part of this bug fixed in lenny?
Cheers,
Julien
[1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=2052746fc8397130c120f0194a89938b0b62b6cb
[2] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/commit/?id=4dd00681dd0f9fce8dfd4592b46418edbbd2eeb4
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