Bug#599812: Chrome rendering of HTML5 elements such as canvas and video crash X with xserver-xorg-video-intel

[Cesare Leonardi <celeonar@gmail.com>]

On 10/11/2010 03:43 PM, Jonathan E. Magen wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
> Version: 2:2.9.1-4
> Severity: important
>
> When using the Chrome 7 preview release, rendering pages with
> advanced HTML5 effects such as<canvas>  and<video>  will cause X to
> crash with the xserver-xorg-video-intel driver. I suspect this might
> be something to do with the new GPU rendering process but either way,
> Chrome should not be able to crash X. When X crashes, the system is
> completely unusable, does not respond to keypresses and must be power
> cycled to become usable once more.

Very likely an intel driver problem. However seems already fixed. Read this:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2010/10/msg00057.html

If you can, try yourself using the intel driver from experimental.
Ciao.

Cesare.