[clarkdale] GPU crash while playing doom 3

[Fred Odendaal]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel

At a certain point in the doom 3 video game the screen freezes for about 5 seconds and then alternately flashes between black and some text which can't be read because the flashing cycles so quickly.

I am using the native Linux version of Doom 3. This crash happens almost half way through the game and is consistent. I have a checkpoint just before where the crash happens so I can recreate it easily.

The last time it crashed I was running apport and was able to get into a terminal with CTRL-ALT-1. I saved the output from dmesg, Xorg.0.log and i915_error_state. I'll attach these files to this error report.

If there is any other information required please let me know as I can readily reproduce this bug.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.1-3ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 5a6950b34d04ad8c3d59efea84488501
CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002
Date: Sat Aug 14 23:48:45 2010
DkmsStatus: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100406.1)
MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H55M-USB3
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic root=UUID=bff8a402-5573-4ab0-bd41-2322d103d063 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-intel
dmi.bios.date: 02/05/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F5
dmi.board.name: H55M-USB3
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF5:bd02/05/2010:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnH55M-USB3:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnH55M-USB3:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: H55M-USB3
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: x86_64
 kernel: 2.6.32-24-generic

[lspci]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0042] (rev 12)
     Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:d000]

[Fred Odendaal (fred-odendaal)]

No graphics card. GPU is onboard Intel I3 530 Core processor.

Crash can be avoided by turning off 3D acceleration in the xorg.conf file by putting the following line in the Device section:
Option "DRI" "False"

However, this makes the game so slow it's almost unplayable.

[Fred Odendaal (fred-odendaal)]

Upgraded OS to Ubuntu 10.10 - Kernel 2.6.35-24-generic (64 bit). Crash no longer occurs!

However it no longer picks up the 32bit libraries by default. I had to add this line to the beginning of the doom3 script to get it to work:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:.

I think this bug can be closed.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Thanks for following up on this bug Fred, I'll close it as per your suggestion. Sounds to me like it was a fault in mesa fixed in a newer version.