Bug#525619: xserver-xorg-video-intel: screen blank after returning to vt7

2011-02-23 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
> I see you're running 2.6.37, and it looks like there were some more > backlight fixes lately, so you might want to try latest 2.6.38-rc from > experimental. Thanks, I've just now looked at the shortlog entry related to the backlight. However, my backlight is fine: It turns off upon suspend and

Bug#533090: Acknowledgement (xserver-xorg-video-intel: X server crashed, now virtual consoles not working)

2011-02-22 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
I haven't seen the GPU hang recently (running testing/unstable). Instead when it crashes after S3 resume, the screen is off but the backlight is on (and the GPU s otherwise working fine). See Bug#525619. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Bug#525619: xserver-xorg-video-intel: screen blank after returning to vt7

2011-02-22 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
> could we please get an update, with either squeeze or higher? Alas, yes: I still see the problem. It happens every couple days where the screen is blank (but the backlight is on). A few days ago I had started filling out a new Debian bug report, but then got the hang again, rebooted, and lost

Bug#606340: downgrading worked for me

2010-12-15 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Downgrading xserver-xorg-video-intel to 2.13.0-3 solved the same problem for me (Thinkpad T60 with Intel 945GM graphics). I suspected that it would work based on the Debian Changelog entry for 2.13.0-4: * Fail intel_pci_probe if we don't have a kernel mode setting driver. This allows the X serv

Bug#601732: xserver-xorg-video-intel: render error upon S3 wakeup

2010-10-28 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.12.0+shadow-2 Severity: normal This is the same problem I saw in : Upon waking up from S3 sleep, the screen came back very close to black (with just enough brightness that I could make out where my Emacs window was). I'm running vanilla 2.6.36. The

Bug#589787: xserver-xorg-video-intel: render error and then server crashes

2010-10-02 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
> Not sure it's going to help, but well, having an updated bug status > would be nice. For a week or so I've been running xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.12.0+shadow-2 (and shadow-1 for a week before that). Good news: The problem has not reappeared. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lis

Bug#589787: xserver-xorg-video-intel: render error and then server crashes

2010-07-24 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
> Is this reproducible with 2.12.0 from experimental? I am trying 2.12.0 now. But I get several problems: 1. One time it wouldn't resume from S3 sleep. 2. Regularly the mouse does not work. I'll try some more tests and see what I can reproduce and capture in the log and be back in touch in a c

Bug#589787: xserver-xorg-video-intel: render error and then server crashes

2010-07-21 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
> Is this reproducible with 2.12.0 from experimental? I will try that. -- 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/e1obvpv-0001cn...@approx.mit.edu

Bug#525619: xserver-xorg-video-intel: screen blank after returning to vt7

2010-04-20 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
>> In both cases, the backlight was still on, but the screen was blank. >> And switching back to vt1 or any other non-X vt, then back to vt7, >> did not solve it. However, putting the laptop into S3 sleep and then >> resuming solved the problem. > can you still reproduce this with latest intel dr

Bug#564159: xserver-xorg-video-intel: crashed with assertion failure

2010-02-28 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
I've been running current kernels and libdrm (2.4.18 from unstable) and haven't seen the problem recur. -- 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/e1nlt5e-gf...@

Bug#564946: xserver-xorg-video-intel: screen flickers, tears, turns pink

2010-01-13 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
> At least the flickering and 'screen turns to pink' issues are a kernel > bug (or multiple kernel bugs). Adding i915.powersave=0 to the kernel > command line should work around that. Thanks. That fixed the pink screen and the flickering (and the 'tearing'). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Bug#564946: xserver-xorg-video-intel: screen flickers, tears, turns pink

2010-01-12 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.9.1-2 Severity: grave The flickering in #56 has returned since I upgraded the X server and kernel a couple days ago (I'm tracking 'unstable'). Now it flickers a once or twice per minute. In addition, one of the Firefox windows often gets shifted

Bug#523969: xserver-xorg: crash and assertion failure after running mplayer

2009-11-28 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Julien Cristau wrote: > It's quite likely that this is fixed with newer libdrm and/or > xserver-xorg-video-intel. Can you confirm? I'm now using libdrm 2.4.15-1 and xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.9.1-1, and I just retested the .mp4 files on my system (not sure which .mp4 file I had used back in Apr

Bug#522226: xserver-xorg-video-intel: screen briefly flashes/flickers a few times an hour

2009-08-04 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
The flickering seems absent since this morning, when I installed and rebooted with the latest and greatest 2.6.30 kernel package (linux-image-2.6.30-1-686 version 2.6.30-5). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Bug#522226: xserver-xorg-video-intel: screen briefly flashes/flickers a few times an hour

2009-08-03 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
> Please send your config and log. === /etc/X11/xorg.conf = # xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file) # # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using # values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the

Bug#522226: xserver-xorg-video-intel: screen briefly flashes/flickers a few times an hour

2009-08-03 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
The screen flickering has returned after aptitude upgrading a few days ago. It happens every few minutes. The upgrade switched to these xserver-xorg packages: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.6.3-1 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.0-2 The hardware is a TP T60 with Intel graphics. From lspci: 00:02.1 D

Bug#533090: Acknowledgement (xserver-xorg-video-intel: X server crashed, now virtual consoles not working)

2009-06-14 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
I haven't rebooted since the server crash (and won't unless I have to because of another crash). So I can reproduce the console problem any time, and can run lspci or any other diagnostics that might help track it down. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Bug#498884: xserver-xorg: Error in I830WaitLpRing()

2009-06-13 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
I'm using the intel driver from unstable (2.7.1), and I have not noticed the problem. 2.7.1 also fixed other hangs I often noticed with 2.7.0. The fix was probably this change: * Fix multiplication error when computing required batch space. This could fix any number of cases where the

Bug#523969: xserver-xorg: crash and assertion failure after running mplayer

2009-04-13 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.4+1 Severity: normal When running mplayer on an .mp4 file, it complained about LIRC something or other, then the X server crashed. In /var/log/xdm.log there were these lines including an assertion failure: I830PMEvent: Capability change I830PMEvent: Capability

Bug#522226: xserver-xorg-video-intel: screen briefly flashes/flickers a few times an hour

2009-04-09 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
> Don't use make install. Just copy src/.libs/intel.so into > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ (after having moved the old intel.so > from there). Great, that's a much simpler recipe. I did that and restarted the X server (with just one server), and got this in the log (II) LoadModule: "intel" (II

Bug#522226: xserver-xorg-video-intel: screen briefly flashes/flickers a few times an hour

2009-04-05 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
> I'm using the intel driver from the experimental repo on a system > otherwise using unstable without any ill effects. The problem is that > even the experimental version is too old (2.6.1). Upstream has had a > large number of bug fixes since then (most importantly to me - XV > tearing fixes and

Bug#522226: xserver-xorg-video-intel: screen briefly flashes/flickers a few times an hour

2009-04-04 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
> I'm pretty certain that what you're seeing is already reported upstream: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17805 I just read through that thread. It looks similar but I'm not too sure. The reports there were of the whole display blanking for a (short) while. Mine doesn't go blank.

Bug#498884: xserver-xorg: Error in I830WaitLpRing()

2008-09-13 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.3+16 Severity: normal After about a day of uptime, the X server suddenly crashed; xdm tried to restart it but the server kept crashing. Restarting xdm didn't help, but rebooting did. The machine is a Thinkpad T60 with Intel integrated graphics. Here is the xdm

Bug#365134: which X server is correct?

2006-05-18 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
I just ran into this problem as well, and was about to report the same workaround (changing /usr/bin/X11/xdm to /usr/bin/xdm in /etc/init.d/xdm and /etc/X11/default-display-manager). But I'm still not sure which X server to use in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. There's -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1878204 200