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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #727594
  2. Comment #42

Comment 42 for bug 727594

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote : Re: [Bug 727594] Re: SRU: [i915gm] GPU lockup (ESR: 0x00000001 IPEHR: 0x02000004)

On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 06:04:06PM -0000, Patrick M wrote:
> My machine boots into a blank screen, except the times it gives me the
> option to boot into recovery mode at boot up.

Heh, you have to explain a lot more than that. Did the issue only occur
after installing the fix? Do you have GPU lockups matching this bug
prior to the black screen? Or do you see GPU error codes matching this
bug when it is black screened? What is your graphics card?

In general, I would suggest to all, unless you KNOW you have this exact
bug, or if you have found a regression which is traceable specifically
to this fix, let's handle your issue on separate bug reports, not here.
That should help spare people from lots of extraneous email...

> Then if I run failsafex
> graphic from the menu I get a decent GUI. Maybe the answer is to just
> have a way to always boot in failsafe mode.

It's not a bad idea. I've filed this as bug #775093, feel free to
subscribe if you'd like to follow it. I plan on spending some time
reworking X diagnostic tools during oneiric, and this would fit with
those plans.