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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #353898
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 353898

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In , Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

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XorgLog.txt

[Problem]
X locks up in various circumstances, most easily reproduced when typing quickly into KMail's subject field.

[Original Report]
Since I ugpraded to Jaunty Beta, I experience common "lock-up".

When the display is "locked-up", the mouse pointer moves on the screen, but the pointer doesn't change, the keyboard doesn't do anything, and the display doesn't get any update.

I can SSH in the box and kill -9 the Xorg server. After that either nothing happens, or the screen becomes black. In all cases, the display is still non-functional. A shutdown -r usually doesn't complete either and I have to power-cycle the laptop.

This happen in various circumstances, but the most "reliable" way to trigger it is by creating a new email in Kmail and typing in the subject field very fast. It also happened in various other situations: like opening a new tab in firefox, starting up gvim, or just on my first log-in after the upgrade.

Btw, it seems that the KMail trick is a very reliable way to reproduce the lock-up. I've also found a "work-around" for this very common source of lock ups, i paste the subject line from another place, that way there is a single update to the window title which seems to be related to the problem.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.6.3-0ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_CA.UTF-8:fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-11-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #38-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 27 09:00:52 UTC 2009
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-intel
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27a0] (rev 03)
 Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01d8]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a2] (rev 03)
 Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01d8]