[i945GME] display went blank when browsing firefox

[Brian Curtis]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel

I am using Jaunty, and my display went blank when switching into a new firefox tab. I don't think its related to firefox since I just recently tried out the new intel driver.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.7.99.901+git20090624.f0270bbb-0ubuntu0sarvatt~jaunty
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-13-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #44-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 2 07:57:31 UTC 2009
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-intel
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package
Xrandr:

glxinfo:

setxkbmap:

xdpyinfo:

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

My computer is the Dell mini 9.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

You mentioned the screen went blank - did it come back after a brief amount of time, or did you need to restart the computer? Was it blank on the LVDS (laptop) panel, or did you have an external monitor plugged in? How many times have you seen this happen, and does it only occur when using firefox? If so, is it linked to viewing any particular firefox page?

I also notice you're running a version of the driver from xorg-edgers. Are you able to reproduce this issue when booting on the Karmic linux kernel (2.6.30-rc2 or newer)?

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

Hi Bryce,

The screen never came back, i waited 2 hours just to see. I had to restart the computer, but i never tested the cntrl+alt+backspace because its off. It was blank on the laptop screen, no external monitors. This happens at unpredictable times, but within an hour or two it goes blank. The color of the screen is random too, most of the time blank, but a white and pink have shown up.

This isn't a firefox issue

I haven't tested this in a Karmic install yet, because i can't even boot into gdm with the newest kernel. It just flashes the login prompt like you would see when switching to another tty (cntrl+alt+f2 for example).

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Okay, well this sounds like the pretty well known X freeze issue, esp. if it's not particular to firefox. If you can reproduce it on karmic feel free to reopen the bug, but should be fixed I think. The gdm failure at login sounds like an unrelated problem.