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  1. Bug #1660619
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 1660619

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jeffbl (jeff-mulb) wrote :

I'm seeing this regularly as well. Often I am doing something with video or audio. This last time, I launched an mp3 in VLC, and the screen immediately froze. The audio kept playing. About 15 minutes later, when the mp3 ended, the screen immediately unfroze and everything seemed fine.

[155642.708062] [drm:intel_pipe_update_end [i915]] *ERROR* Atomic update failure on pipe A (start=5294256 end=5294257) time 155 us, min 2146, max 2159, scanline start 2143, end 2164

Ubuntu 17.10
Lenovo Thinkpad x260
Linux ... 4.13.0-21-generic #24-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 18 17:29:16 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

It has been happening once every 2 days or so, but has on occasion occurred multiple times on the same day. Often, I can't wait to see if it will come back, and sometimes it never does, so I have to reboot. This is brutal for things like presentations, having no idea if the machine will suddenly just freeze.