Comment 246 for bug 359392

Great hint! Implemented it, hopefully my system will now be stable
enough to get my VirtualBoxes running some server processes :o) I'll
keep the thread updated in case of problems.

JP

Björn Ruberg wrote:
> WORKAROUND:
>
> For getting rid of the freezes make do the following.
> If you don't have a /etc/X11/xorg.conf , create one by runnig X -configure (and putting the resulting file to that place).
> In the xorg.conf the is a section looking like this:
>
> Section "Device"
> Driver "intel"
> EndSection
>
> Make sure to have this option in that section:
> Option "NoAccel" "yes"
>
> As a result, you will have this:
>
> Section "Device"
> Driver "intel"
> Option "NoAccel" "yes"
> EndSection
>
> After that, you won't have nice effects and not much fun playing videos.
> But your system does not freeze anymore.
>
>
> Andres, the Fedora bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464866 is indeed the right one. But there are different bugs put into one. So it's not very clean. I have the EQ overflowing message.
>
> Good to hear that ubuntu and intel is working together. Sad that it is
> done this late. The bug is known longer. Probably it would be good to
> work more with Fedora. I don't flame about distros, I love each and
> every one. But Fedora is technically always ahead of ubuntu. Bugs not
> fixed there will hit the next ubuntu release. As it happened now.
>
> ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #464866
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464866
>
>