Comment 342 for bug 541511

(In reply to comment #196)
> (In reply to comment #195)
> > v9 patch works perfectly with latest kernel.
>
> Well, it might work fine on *your* hardware, but that does not imply it "works
> perfectly" in general. Believe it or not, the may still be (and in fact really
> *are*) many people observing hangs and crashes.
>
I thought it was implied that I had not changed my hardware since last test, it's still i855GM rev02.

I know that there are hangs and crashes, it's just that since v9 patch was created I am no more experiencing them; overlays are also working fine.

> BTW, what do you mean by "latest kernel"? I can only patch against the
> mainline, due to Reiser4. If there was a patch agains the mainline 2.6.34.x
> kernel, I could easily test every single patch version with every single kernel
> release.
>

2.6.35-rc4

There are ports of the patch to other versions as well, you'd better check them from comment 187

> > However I have not tested compiz and any other complex 3D...
>
> Neither have I, but it crashes anyway. Furthermore, compositting has become a
> standard feature. Obviously, switching all acceleration off is *not* a usable
> workaround. The legacy driver was *perfectly* stable and weeks of uptime with
> (accelerated) KDE 4, DVB-T and simple 3D games were not a problem.

The legacy driver is no more an option, this was explained in this bug and in bug 26345.

I am sure you can track down the cause of the crash and the relative bug; it could be some part of Xorg stack or also a new bug.