[i855GM] playing any video causes a hard crash

[Manuel Sanchez]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel

Since installing 10.04 beta on a laptop equipped with a intel 855GM graphics card, I've been consistently experiencing the following: when trying to play video media in any format, using either Totem or vlc, X windows crashes and the screen goes into text mode, displaying some of the boot log; it then blinking for a couple of seconds before going entirely black. The machine utterly crashes, being completely irresponsible to any keyboard input or remote access via ssh. Once rebooted, the system logs for the session where the crash occurred are missing.

I'm sorry I don't have any useful information regarding this crash beyond this description, but if you can think of any way I could collect some please let me know and I will try it.

I doubt it would be related, but this machine requires re-enabling KMS after the last intel driver update (bug #565870); the crash playing video media has also occurred with all the previous intel driver releases in 10.04. It does not happen if I use a vesa driver.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.1-3ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CurrentDmesg:
 [ 27.497737] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
 [ 27.811042] lib80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'TKIP'
 [ 37.748033] eth1: no IPv6 routers present
Date: Thu Apr 22 23:12:42 2010
DkmsStatus: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release Candidate i386 (20091020.3)
Lsusb:
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: FUJITSU SIEMENS LIFEBOOK P7010
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
 Socket 1:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
 Socket 1:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=94bd4efc-5540-4757-b489-0d0e7ed33d73 ro quiet splash i915.modeset=1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-intel
dmi.bios.date: 01/16/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: FUJITSU // Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
dmi.bios.version: Version 1.28
dmi.board.name: FJNB189
dmi.board.vendor: FUJITSU
dmi.board.version: CP248014-01
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: FUJITSU SIEMENS
dmi.chassis.version: P70__
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnFUJITSU//PhoenixTechnologiesLtd.:bvrVersion1.28:bd01/16/2006:svnFUJITSUSIEMENS:pnLIFEBOOKP7010:pvr:rvnFUJITSU:rnFJNB189:rvrCP248014-01:cvnFUJITSUSIEMENS:ct10:cvrP70__:
dmi.product.name: LIFEBOOK P7010
dmi.sys.vendor: FUJITSU SIEMENS
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.32-21-generic

[Manuel Sanchez (manuel-antonio-sanchez)]

I believe this bug matches the description of bug #558633, as xv also fails in my case