Bug#502367: xserver-xorg-video-intel: crashes once per day since upgrading to 2.6.26

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

Andres Salomon wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:39:26 -0400
> Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> X has been crashing on me about once per day since upgrading to
>> (debian lenny's) 2.6.26.  I don't recall this happening on 2.6.25,
>> though I can confirm that if desired.
>>     
>
> Note that I have since confirmed that it's not a kernel regression; it
> does happen under 2.6.24 through 2.6.26.
>
>   
>> When the X server crashes, the screen goes black, gdm attempts to
>> restart a few times (and fails), and I'm dumped back to console.  I
>> then have to reboot in order to get a working X.  This is on a
>> thinkpad x40 running lenny with gnome.  I've attached the Xorg.log
>> and Xorg.log.old. Dmesg doesn't contain any useful information
>> regarding the crash.
>>
>> I would be more than happy to test patches.
>>     
>
> I've tested newer intel drivers (2.5.x), and they crash as well.
>   


Any news about this? Did you try Intel 2.6.1? a more recent kernel?

Brice