Intel i915 Chipset crashes
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mesa |
New
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Critical
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This is a tracking bug for issues in the Intel i915 driver implementation on Linux.
Some users are seeing crashes related to Intel i915 chipsets on Linux.
The tell-tale sign is a segfault on launch:
mixxx: i915_fragprog.
This has been reported on Archbang, Debian Sid, Manjaro, and Ubuntu.
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Workarounds:
From the Freedesktop.org bug report:
"A downgrade to MesaLib-
Apparently it is a bug with the intel 915/945 chipset DRI."
An IRC user reported luck with using the "dri-alternatives" driver:
<dreamer> oh sweet, got it to work somehow. using the dri-alternatives driver and LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH environment variable
Changed in mixxx: | |
importance: | Undecided → Critical |
Changed in mixxx: | |
milestone: | none → 1.12.0 |
Some extra remarks:
Running current debian sid, compiled latest mixxx git which gave same result als apt package.
Installed libgl1- mesa-dri- experimental and running with LIBGL_DRIVERS_ PATH=/usr/ lib/i386- linux-gnu the program seems to run perfectly.