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Bug#572134: Intel i945 related crahes



Hi,
It looks like there is an important bugfix in the 2.6.35 kernel for
issues involving intel GPUs, in particular the i945. Since the upgrade,
I have not had these issues anymore, however, I also have not been using
that computer a lot.

Anyway, here's the relevant change from 2.6.35-rc6:
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commit 944001201ca0196bcdb088129e5866a9f379d08c
Author: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Jul 20 13:15:31 2010 +1000

    drm/i915: enable low power render writes on GEN3 hardware.
    
    A lot of 945GMs have had stability issues for a long time, this
manifested as X hangs, blitter engine hangs, and lots of crashes.
    
    one such report is at:
    https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20560
    
    along with numerous distro bugzillas.
    
    This only took a week of digging and hair ripping to figure out.
    
    Tracked down and tested on a 945GM Lenovo T60,
    previously running
    x11perf -copypixwin500
    or
    x11perf -copywinpix500
    repeatedly would cause the GPU to wedge within 4 or 5 tries, with
random busy bits set.
    
    After this patch no hangs were observed.
    
    cc: stable@kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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We should make sure to get this fix into the squeeze kernel!

Regards,
Erich




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