Bug#469706: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Random lockups on i945GM chipset

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

Klein Moebius wrote:
> X tends to lockup requiring hard reboot most notably with OpenOffice
> running or Iceweasel.  Once with only one instance of Mutt running on
> Gnome.  Attaching a copy of /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old as well.
>   

Michal Suchanek wrote:
> Hello, I have been following the X11 ustable packages for some time
> because the older ones did not work for one reason or another.
>
> After upgrade to version 2.2.1-1 of the Intel driver I got several hard
> lockups (the hibernate script bound to the power button won't work). The
> lastest package before that I had archived on my system was 2.2.0.90-3
> according to mtime. After downgrading to this one I saw no more lockups.
>   


Many people are seeing such random lockups without having any real idea
of what it going on.

You might want to try with
    Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
in the Device section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

Brice