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benny1967
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 Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 3:56 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] xf86-video-intel-2.99.917 made Gnome unusable |
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I recently did a world upgrade (after a long while, so it was big) and everything was fine afterwards. - Only when I re-booted and logged into Gnome (3.12), problems started. In a regular Gnome session, I could log in, but the PC froze as soon as I tried to start an application ("A Problem has occurred and the system can't recover"). When I tried a Gnome classic session, the same error message appeared right after I saw the desktop, no chance to do anything.
I'm not good in identifying relevant log files, let alone reading and interpreting them. So I just looked at what was upgraded before and thought that xf86-video-intel might be a candidate that could cause trouble. I downgraded this package from 2.99.917 to the last working version (2.21.15) and - voilà! - everything was fine again.
Of course in the long run this is no solution, I'd like to identify the problem and keep up with stable intel driver releases.
Any ideas? I'm really lost here.
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eccerr0r
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Curious what hardware are you using?
I've found that some of my Intel hardware behaves poorly with the new driver and some work fairly well... Some work better and some work worse...
I believe I am running Gnome 3.12 on 2.99.917 on an Intel HD4000 and it seems to run gdm/gnome session fine. I have other problems with 2.99.917 on my Intel i965G chipset graphics but I think Gnome 3.12 works fine on that machine too...
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asturm
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benny1967
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Thank you for the hints. The kernel is a good place to start: It's 3.10.17.gentoo, which according to the bug report linked to above is likely to contain the bug.
The graphics chip is reported as
| Code: | | VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G965 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) |
I'll try a more recent kernel in a few days when I have time for it and tell what happened. Thank you! |
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benny1967
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| Updating to kernel 3.18.7-gentoo fixed the issue for me. Thank you! |
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