Comment 6 for bug 654876

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel

xserver-xorg-video-intel does not have support for Sandybridge Xv video acceleration, but it advertises support and attempting to use it is causing a system hang. Given that these devices will be released before 11.04 is released, I believe it would be in our best interest to disable Xv for Maverick for a better user experience. The change only affects these specific devices (covered by the IS_GEN6 macro) so the regression potential is extremely low.

Upstream addressed this issue in this commit:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/commit/?id=8784c4f5a1524fb979b00c7ce7981cbc1dcf0ec0

author Chris Wilson <email address hidden> 2010-10-01 20:40:36 (GMT)
committer Chris Wilson <email address hidden> 2010-10-01 20:45:15 (GMT)
commit 8784c4f5a1524fb979b00c7ce7981cbc1dcf0ec0
tree d73f10e7631195c2ecb70d87aa7f3ba00da93e09
parent 345c963e443ec325f1ff530512a356ddb318ff70

video: Disable TextureAdaptor for Sandybridge
The acceleration code does not yet exist, so we try to use gen4 shaders
which hangs the chip and makes everybody upset. Disable it until such a
time as support is written for Sandybridge XVideo.

Reported-by: Matthias Hopf <email address hidden>
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30500
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <email address hidden>

Patch will follow soon and has been tested by me on 2 sandybridge machines to verify that desktop applications that autodetect Xv support no longer crash the system (cheese, totem visualizations, rhythmbox visualizer).