intel graphics - X freezing frequently

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dan2003 · Post by **dan2003** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 10:39 am

Where to go now....

Whilst I have not for along time had a lock up - the latest Intel driver rather than wedge X11 when it screws up, falls back to software rendering - When this happens I am left with a very funky set of colours. This can happen with seconds after login or after many hours - it appears random.

Also once this has happened any attempt to play video results in X crashing me back to login. This include skype conference with video call as well as playing anything in mplayer etc,

I have given up waiting for a fix and wanted to go back to my previous known working set of packages which is...

x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.5-r1
media-libs/mesa-7.5.2
x11-libs/libXext-1.0.5
x11-proto/xextproto-7.0.5
x11-libs/libXtst-1.0.3
x11-proto/recordproto-1.13.2
x11-proto/fixesproto-4.0
x11-libs/libX11-1.2.2
x11-libs/libXi-1.2.1
x11-libs/libXinerama-1.0.3
x11-proto/inputproto-1.5.1
x11-proto/xineramaproto-1.1.2
x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.7.x (I think - possibly even older)

However these are now all gone from portage. I know that if I jump through enough hoops I can get these back with overlays etc but I simply cannot be bothered with it all.

Intel claim their drivers are "stable" yet I beg to differ.
Maybe the problem only shows itself when used with a dual screen setup but I was under the impression this was a fairly common setup these days.

I have tried the combination of packages for a "stable setup" on the intel xorg website - indeed I have been running these for the past few months - it quite simply isn't stable.

I am left wondering where to go - ditch Intel and go back to the dreaded nvidia binary drivers at the expense of a new GFX card?

I really do not want to have to do this and hope somebody might be able to provide a solution.. but I suspect I am asking too much.

Gh0str1d3r · Post by **Gh0str1d3r** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 12:27 pm

I doubt this is an intel graphics issue, since nobody (including me) seems to have the same problem. I am sometimes using dual screen, and very often an external screen, and videos and skype is no problem. Only flash in full-screen recently started to freeze my kde, but not the x-server, since alt-f1 still works.

I am using a normal testing system, libdrm-9999 from x11 overlay and xorg-server-1.8.2 since 1.9 does not work with kde-4.5. Maybe you can try this as well, and if it does not help rebuild your system to check if there somehow emerged a problem in some software...

Post by **asturm** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 1:57 pm

Gh0str1d3r wrote:I am using a normal testing system, libdrm-9999 from x11 overlay and xorg-server-1.8.2 since 1.9 does not work with kde-4.5.

Must have been solved some time ago.

Sh4doW · Post by **Sh4doW** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 9:14 pm

I've moved to gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r9, xorg-server-1.9.0 with libdrm-9999 and xf86-video-intel-2.12.901 (=2.13.0 rc1). Lockups on resume from suspend seem to be fixed.

btw, changelog for 2.13.0 rc1 release @ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/i ... 08172.html

Gh0str1d3r · Post by **Gh0str1d3r** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 7:06 am

Sh4doW wrote:I've moved to gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r9, xorg-server-1.9.0 with libdrm-9999 and xf86-video-intel-2.12.901 (=2.13.0 rc1). Lockups on resume from suspend seem to be fixed.

btw, changelog for 2.13.0 rc1 release @ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/i ... 08172.html

This sounds really like a major improvement! Hopefully, this will end our problems...

dan2003 · Post by **dan2003** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 10:05 am

The crazy colours and video causing X to bomb always happens immediatly after the following appears in dmesg :

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[drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung
render error detected, EIR: 0x00000000
[drm:i915_do_wait_request] *ERROR* i915_do_wait_request returns -5 (awaiting 44011 at 44005)

This used to hang X altogether but the latest Intel driver stopped this happening - allowing X to carry on - albeit with some these quirks. A few months ago I spent some time in #intel-gfx on freenode, i gave some devs there some debug output from the GPU and they confirmed there was some bug but I didn't gather whether it was in kernel or Intel driver.

I posted some more detail about these previously in this thread.

I will try an test it with a ubuntu live usb key and see if that behaves.

clouds222 · Post by **clouds222** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 1:36 am

Hey, is this issue solved?

I have encountered the siminar issue.

I've just installed amd64 version Gentoo with GM45 chipset and core2 processor.

But after I login to the gnome desktop, the system hangs after no longer than 3 minutes every time. And can connect with putty via network.

dan2003 · Post by **dan2003** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 8:04 am

Hi, Its early days yet , but on Saturday i updated to

sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.34-r11
x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.13.0

I have had no problems since, given that problems generally arise within seconds or minutes of login I would say it is likely one of these has resolved the problem - at least in my case anyway.

clouds222 · Post by **clouds222** » Thu Oct 14, 2010 3:04 am

It's sound like a issue of xf86-video-intel.