Bug#567475: xserver-xorg-video-intel: The latest update to testing broke some functionality on 855GM cards
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On 2010-10-02 14:05, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hi,
>
> LN2 <mbfmaurer@gmail.com> (29/01/2010):
>> If you need any further information/testing please feel free to
>> contact me.
>
> please could you report with 2.12 from sid or 2.13 from experimental
> with sid's kernel? Details about versions can be read in:
> http://ikibiki.org/blog/2010/10/02/October-X-update/
>
> Mraw,
> KiBi.
Hi,
I came around testing the xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.12 and 2.13 versions with the unstable kernel as requested.
Both versions of the package start the X-server (that is already an improvement over the current linux-image-2.6.32-5-686/xserver-xorg-video-intel combination in testing)
and the issues initially reported in the bug are gone, i.e. shutdown, reboot, hibernate, logout all seem to work. The video acceleration seems
to work, too.
I have however had some issues with the xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.12 that don't occur with the 2.13 version. Using any application that tries
to switch the screen resolution (like running dosbox or wine with a game with non-native resolution in fullscreen mode) kills X which is then
promptly restarted and asks for a user log-in. The easiest way to reproduce this bug is to start dosbox and press Alt+Return for fullscreen
mode which seems to trigger this bug 100% of the time.
The 2.12 version apparently does not like 3D-Applications either, since Tux Racer crashed the X-server to in a very reproducible fashion.
The 2.13 version doesn't have quite the same problems. It handles screen resolution changes fine, and start games like Tux Racer and Scorch3D,
nevertheless I had a few crashes of the X-server with 2.13, too.
This bug was a little harder to trigger, but opening enough applications including 3D ones usually did the trick and killed X.
After the bug was triggered once though, trying to start a 3D application always killed X and trying to play a movie with mplayer showed a blue window instead of the movie.
So hope this helps. If you want me to test something else, let me know.
LN2
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