On Saturday 26 Feb 2011 13:40:24 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > Neil Youngman <n.s.young...@btinternet.com> (09/01/2011): > > Several times I have found the system hung in the screensaver. It > > would not respond to CTRL_ALT-Fn or CTRL-ALT-Backspace. Absent any > > way to remotely access the system I have been forced to do a hard > > reset. Following the most recent incident, I have observed the > > following messages in the log (/var/log/messages). The references to > > i915_gem_retire_work_handler lead me to belive that this is i915 > > related. > > might be a kernel bug. Any chance you could give 2.6.37 or 2.6.38rc* a > try? Those are available in sid and experimental respectively. > > KiBi.
I upgraded to 2.6.37 a week ago and I have had no further problems. This is not conclusive, but given the previous frequency of this problem, it is probable that the kernel upgrade has solved the problem. Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201103111456.49697.n.s.young...@btinternet.com
