[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-04-01 Thread Brian Rogers
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Confirmed -- [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is the registrant for xf86-

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-04-01 Thread Brian Rogers
I have a kernel for people to try in my experimental PPA: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/experimental It contains the gtt chipset flush v7 patch from http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27187 on top of linux 2.6.34-rc3. This patch has managed to stabilize the system for some

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-04-02 Thread Brian Rogers
I recommend trying the experimental kernel with xorg-edgers. Or if not that, the standard packages. -- [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is the registrant

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 548380] Re: [i845G] Lucid Beta 2.6.32-17 browsing Lucid forum screen went black no keyboard

2010-04-08 Thread Brian Rogers
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 541492 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541492 Gdk-WARNING is just a toolkit warning, so it's not a sign of any GPU- related problems. -- [i845G] Lucid Beta 2.6.32-17 browsing Lucid forum screen went black no keyboard https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/5483

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2010-04-09 Thread Brian Rogers
I don't expect disabling KMS to help overall. The nature of this bug is that it's timing-dependent, so just about any change can affect the stability for better or worse. On an affected system, I would often get a repeatable freeze on bootup after upgrading an unrelated package just because the new

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 476817] Re: [i855] [i855] [karmic] X freezes with intel 855GM videocard

2010-04-16 Thread Brian Rogers
FYI, the fix I was referring to in the earlier comment has since been included in Lucid and therefore I removed the package from my PPA. The kernel in there is a new, different fix from an upstream bug report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27187 Glad to hear it helps. Anyway, a new

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-04-19 Thread Brian Rogers
For those who need it, I have a kernel with Daniel Vetter's patch in my experimental PPA: https://launchpad.net/~brian- rogers/+archive/experimental -- MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541511 You received this bug notification because you are a memb

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2010-04-20 Thread Brian Rogers
I have a kernel available in this PPA that might help: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/experimental -- MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541492 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-01-20 Thread Brian Rogers
OK, I've uploaded a plain 2.8.1 build, no additional patches on top of it this time. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is the registrant for xf86-video

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-01-25 Thread Brian Rogers
When this bug is resolved, we'll be able to go back to the new driver with the bugfix added, and things will be fast again as well as stable. One reason I just realized for why graphics-testing is slower is that by reverting libdrm but not mesa, I broke opengl acceleration. It was just silently fa

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-01-28 Thread Brian Rogers
OK, xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.8.1-1 has now been posted. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is the registrant for xf86-video-intel. __

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-01-31 Thread Brian Rogers
I found another way to freeze the system. For me, the following command will usually trigger a freeze before it completes: x11perf -range copywinpix10,comppixwin500 -time 1 -repeat 1 I'd like to find out if that freeze is connected to this one. If it is, then we have a good, reproducible test cas

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-01-31 Thread Brian Rogers
shadetree, what version of libdrm, mesa, and xserver-xorg-video-intel is that result for? Did you get 2.8.1-1 to start without crashing? Or did you revert to an earlier version, or to standard Karmic? -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/45

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-02-02 Thread Brian Rogers
OK, version 2.8.0-8-g12c5aec is up. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is the registrant for xf86-video-intel.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-02-03 Thread Brian Rogers
all a .deb file manually, type sudo dpkg -i The file you want might still be in /var/cache/apt/archives. If not, here is the archive of past versions: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-testing/+packages?field.name_filter=&field.status_filter=&field.series_filter=karmic It&#

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-02-04 Thread Brian Rogers
Apparently there's a generic X memory corruption bug triggered by the x11perf command I gave (I can crash Xephyr with it). When X crashes out rather than freezing, it's because of that. So it turns out this isn't a good test of the driver. I did witness freezing in some scenarios with this command

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-02-15 Thread Brian Rogers
OK, sounds like this version is good, so I've upgraded graphics-testing to 2.8.0-47-ge903b3e. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is the registrant for x

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-02-18 Thread Brian Rogers
Version 2.8.99.901-5-g57fc09c is now available. To speed things up I'm going to wait less for feedback now. It could take us down a wrong path if a bad version happens to run stably for a while, but we'll backtrack if that happens. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in ht

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-02-18 Thread Brian Rogers
The package has to be built for Lucid so it can tie into the Lucid versions of its dependencies. Older versions of xserver-xorg-video-intel were failing to build on Lucid, and it looked like it may have taken some work, so I just left that for later when we found a good version that's new enough to

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-02-18 Thread Brian Rogers
Just search for xserver-xorg-video-intel in synaptic. If you have the Lucid version from my PPA, it will say 7:2.8.99.901-5-g57fc09c+lucid in the "Installed version" column. If you select it and go to the package menu and choose "force version" you will be able to select between available versions.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-02-22 Thread Brian Rogers
2.8.99.901-16-g7e7db7a just got done building. If you could verify if that version also freezes, it'd be a good sanity check. I'm going to upload a version between 2.8.99.901-5-g57fc09c and 2.8.99.901-12-g2cc1f3c now, and it might take an hour or so to build. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-02-23 Thread Brian Rogers
Based on the reports from Flabdablet, I have backed up a bit to a build between 2.8.0-8-g12c5aec and 2.8.0-47-ge903b3e. 2.8.0-27-g926c7e7 is now uploaded. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification becaus

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-02-23 Thread Brian Rogers
The system deletes old packages after a while, so that one isn't available any more. But now I sent in a build of 2.8.0, which will get built when it works its way through the queue. You've been having a lot of luck reproducing the hang, which is good, but I want to double-check that you're indeed

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-02-24 Thread Brian Rogers
Yeah, that's definitely a GPU hang. 2.7.0 has been uploaded and should build eventually. If you have problems getting this version to run at all, you may have to boot with i915.modeset=0 in your kernel parameters. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpa

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-02-24 Thread Brian Rogers
We've gone back so far now that we've nearly gone back to the Jaunty version. When you get back to this testing, you may want to do a Jaunty install and see if that suffers from the bug. If it doesn't, we have our good version and it might be easier to step forward from there with newer versions of

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-02-24 Thread Brian Rogers
Yeah, a new video card will bypass the problem, since you won't be using the i845. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is the registrant for xf86-video-i

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-02-27 Thread Brian Rogers
I have a kernel patch for people to try. It works around the x11perf freeze, and I'm curious if it prevents random freezing as well. Kernels with this patch, for both Karmic and Lucid, are available in a separate PPA of mine, graphics-fixes: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/gra

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-03-01 Thread Brian Rogers
If you never added my PPA, does that mean you never downgraded libdrm or mesa? That might be a factor in being able to reproduce the freeze in such old xserver-xorg-video-intel versions. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You recei

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-03-01 Thread Brian Rogers
OK, I see where you specify libdrm 2.4.14-1ubuntu1. You could be getting freezes because of a libdrm bug in the newer version. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-03-02 Thread Brian Rogers
I could lower the delay, but if it froze we wouldn't know if that was because a delay doesn't fix the problem or because the delay was too short. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-03-02 Thread Brian Rogers
I'm preparing post-Jaunty versions of libdrm and the intel driver, so we can step forward and find the first broken version, hopefully with fewer problems than running these old versions in Karmic. -- [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/45690

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-03-03 Thread Brian Rogers
OK, I have libdrm 2.4.11 for Jaunty and a rebuild of the Intel driver queued up. -- [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is the registrant for xf86-video-int

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-03-03 Thread Brian Rogers
I think the 2.6.32-50 kernel I uploaded for Lucid might perform better. If you want to try it in Karmic, you can get it directly here: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-fixes/+build/1534570/+files/linux-image-2.6.32-50-generic_2.6.32-50.22_i386.deb -- [i845g] Karmic stops

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421100] Re: [GM965] X segfaults in intel_renderbuffer when closing googleearth

2009-09-27 Thread Brian Rogers
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 401067 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/401067 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 401067 [GM45] 3D application fail to run through Wine and often crash X -- [GM965] X segfaults in intel_renderbuffer when closing googleearth https://bugs.la

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 401067] Re: Google Earth and 3D Wine applications can crash X on close

2009-09-27 Thread Brian Rogers
** Summary changed: - [GM45] 3D application fail to run through Wine and often crash X + Google Earth and 3D Wine applications can crash X on close -- Google Earth and 3D Wine applications can crash X on close https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/401067 You received this bug notification because you

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 397839] Re: Screen randomly goes off in karmic

2009-09-27 Thread Brian Rogers
I can confirm that patch gets screen blanking working. I tested in my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/ppa -- Screen randomly goes off in karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/397839 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is the

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 401067] Re: Google Earth and 3D Wine applications can crash X on close

2009-09-28 Thread Brian Rogers
I put the fix for this in my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~brian- rogers/+archive/ppa -- Google Earth and 3D Wine applications can crash X on close https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/401067 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is the registrant for xf86-video

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 406460] Re: [i845] xorg hang on video driver 2.8.0

2009-12-31 Thread Brian Rogers
I set up a PPA for Karmic that will roll libdrm and xserver-xorg-video-intel back to the Jaunty versions: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-testing I haven't tested this yet, so be prepared to undo it from the command line if it breaks X. If this old userspace stuff

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 406460] Re: [i845] xorg hang on video driver 2.8.0

2010-01-01 Thread Brian Rogers
Yeah, there's an ABI change for X Server 1.7 in Lucid, so drivers built for earlier versions won't work there. And unfortunately, I wasn't able to build version 2.6.3 for Lucid. But I'm going to post my PPA info to bug 456902, which might be the same issue. If someone on Karmic verifies that 2.6.3

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-01-01 Thread Brian Rogers
I set up a PPA for Karmic that will roll libdrm and xserver-xorg-video-intel back to the Jaunty versions: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-testing It will be interesting if the older X driver works without problems on the newer kernel. I haven't had a chance to try

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-01-01 Thread Brian Rogers
Also, yes Adam, I did see X crashing (not the window manager) during Firefox use on a system where I reverted to a kernel version that doesn't freeze. It makes running an older kernel not a viable workaround for this problem... -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https:/

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-01-05 Thread Brian Rogers
Thanks for the report. It appears the fact that old kernels prevented the freeze was just a red herring: without a recent kernel, the newer userspace driver couldn't enable some features related to the crash. The real problem is probably in the Xorg driver. To narrow down when the problem appeared

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-01-07 Thread Brian Rogers
I was also able to verify that an i845 system is stable with: libdrm 2.4.9 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.7.0 I've now uploaded version 2.7.1 of the intel driver. It should be built and available within a hour. Geir, thank you reminding me about the situation with EXA and UXA. I'll make sure to test

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-01-08 Thread Brian Rogers
OK, the next version is up. I had to patch it to get it to build against the final X Server release. If my patch isn't right, the driver will most likely crash on startup. If it starts correctly, I'm interested in the results both with and without KMS. If this version freezes, is it only with KMS,

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-01-09 Thread Brian Rogers
Confirmed. I had a chance to do the Bejeweled test with that version and it passed. The next version also passed: 2.7.99.902+git20090720.bb300738 They worked with and without KMS. We're in pretty good shape here. This means the bug didn't exist since the beginning of UXA and there's a pretty good

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-01-09 Thread Brian Rogers
Actually, I just saw there are no code changes between the git snapshot I tested and 2.8.0, so I'll bump us forward one more version for now, to 2.8.1. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because y

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-01-10 Thread Brian Rogers
That's excellent news! We've now identified a good and bad version with only a handful of code changes between them. At this point, we have just a few tests to go. I've now uploaded 2.8.0.901. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 Yo

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 447892] Re: [i855GM] Freeze shortly after X startup on Intel i855

2010-01-10 Thread Brian Rogers
Olie, try it with KMS enabled and any AccelMethod setting in xorg.conf deleted. It's possible it won't freeze with that setup. If it still freezes, also try installing this version: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics- testing/+build/1437394/+files/xserver-

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-01-11 Thread Brian Rogers
Since most people are getting the freeze randomly, it's possible for it to seem stable purely by chance and not because you're running a good version. I believe that happened with 2.8.0.901, which has now been reported as both good and bad. So it helps to have as many testers as possible. We want

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 420594] Re: [i845] xorg hang video driver 2.8.1-1ubuntu1

2010-01-13 Thread Brian Rogers
Due to an ABI change in Xorg 1.7, the older binary packages built against 1.6 won't work, so new packages have to be recompiled for 1.7. And unfortunately I wasn't able to easily compile the older driver versions on Lucid. I didn't investigate yet how much work it'd take to work around this proble

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-01-13 Thread Brian Rogers
OK, with two reports of stability, that version does appear to be good. I've now uploaded 2.8.0-2-gb0aa94f. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is the re

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-01-17 Thread Brian Rogers
2.8.0.901 has no code changes from 2.8.0-2-gb0aa94f, so I'm advancing to the next version after that. 2.8.0.901-1-g154592a has now been uploaded. The earlier report of a freeze with 2.8.0.901+karmic was either a fluke or due to the fact that it had some patches on top of the upstream 2.8.0.901 (w

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 476817] Re: [i855] [karmic] X freezes with intel 855GM videocard

2010-01-18 Thread Brian Rogers
Have you tried those versions along with also booting with 'nomodeset' in the kernel options? Otherwise that version of the driver probably won't do the right thing. -- [i855] [karmic] X freezes with intel 855GM videocard https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/476817 You received this bug notification b

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 444039] Re: Xorg crashes when running a 3D game under WINE

2009-10-14 Thread Brian Rogers
Hit alt-F2, type 'winecfg' and hit enter. Then click the graphics tab, and put a check mark by 'emulate a virtual desktop'. Then click OK. This will make all wine applications run within a virtual desktop in a window, including full-screen applications. Can you then reproduce the problem with this

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 178292] Re: 3D-Accelerated Games cause X to crash with Intel Driver

2009-10-14 Thread Brian Rogers
larsemil, you might be experiencing bug 444039. Take a look at the instructions I posted there to bypass the problem. If that solves it for both you and the original reporter, then we have confirmation that it's a bug with mode switching and you'll want to subscribe to that bug. -- 3D-Accelerated

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 444039] Re: Xorg crashes when running a 3D game under WINE

2009-10-14 Thread Brian Rogers
Does Xorg crash if you run in a virtual desktop? Or do you run into some other problem that prevents the game from running? -- Xorg crashes when running a 3D game under WINE https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/444039 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is su

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-03-10 Thread Brian Rogers
Flabdablet, any console switching issues are most likely separate bugs that have already been fixed in newer versions. Only random freezing during general use is important. Do you see that with my current Jaunty PPA packages? crazybyte, the best workaround is probably using nomodeset and setting v

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-03-13 Thread Brian Rogers
That's interesting because those are essentially the same versions that were unstable for you in Karmic. Can you attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log for both Karmic and Jaunty running graphics-testing? -- [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-03-17 Thread Brian Rogers
Can you try Jaunty's kernel on Karmic and Karmic's kernel on Jaunty, to see if the difference in stability is due to the kernel versions? -- [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are a membe

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-03-25 Thread Brian Rogers
There are potential fixes for this in the upstream development version. I uploaded it for Lucid to the following PPA: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/experimental I can't simply upload this version for Karmic because it requires new versions of support libraries, but I can bac

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 476817] Re: [i855] [i855] [karmic] X freezes with intel 855GM videocard

2010-03-25 Thread Brian Rogers
There are potential fixes for this in the upstream development version. I uploaded it for Lucid to the following PPA: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/experimental I can't simply upload this version for Karmic because it requires new versions of support libraries, but I can bac

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-03-26 Thread Brian Rogers
OK, at this point, I recommend the xorg-edgers PPA for testing. It now has the newest xserver-xorg-video-intel driver, as well as libdrm and Xorg. Updating just the first part may have caused some stability issues. Does xorg-edgers experience the freezing issue? -- [i845g] Karmic stops respondin

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-03-26 Thread Brian Rogers
Oh, here is the link: https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa -- [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is the registrant for xf86-video-intel. __

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-03-29 Thread Brian Rogers
Flabdablet, can you try Lucid + xorg-edgers? The upstream driver has additional bugfixes that may be relevant. -- [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is the

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2011-01-06 Thread Brian Rogers
I've made a kernel with the latest fix available in this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-fixes-testing If it gets good feedback, I'll copy it to my regular graphics-fixes PPA. This kernel is based on Natty's 2.6.37 kernel, has the changes in drm- int

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2011-01-06 Thread Brian Rogers
I've made a kernel with the latest fix available in this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-fixes-testing If it gets good feedback, I'll copy it to my regular graphics-fixes PPA. This kernel is based on Natty's 2.6.37 kernel, has the changes in drm- int

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-05-08 Thread Brian Rogers
Alban, there is warning of this bug in the release notes: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1004#Intel%208xx%20X%20freezes/crashes It's also a bug in the upstream code that every distro pulls from, so it's going to affect every linux distro in existence. You can't escape it by switching

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2010-05-10 Thread Brian Rogers
The kernel patch from this bug might help: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27187 I placed a kernel with the newest version of the patch in my experimental PPA: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/experimental If it helps, you can provide feedback in the upstream bug

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-05-15 Thread Brian Rogers
If Ubuntu releases were held up by this kind of bug, Karmic wouldn't be out yet. I helped reinstall Jaunty for someone with an i845 that was locking up on Karmic, for example. And in retrospect, that system had graphical issues even before Jaunty, such as freezing on the splash screen until a VT sw

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-05-15 Thread Brian Rogers
They did blacklist KMS support for i8xx in an attempt to fix this, but that didn't work for everyone. I believe reverting to vesa was considered, but that has its own regressions including bad performance, lack of multi-monitor support, and often even a lack of support for a laptop's native resolut

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-05-19 Thread Brian Rogers
Is there 64-bit capable hardware with i8xx graphics? I just assumed it was too old for that. I'm going to post a 2.6.34 (final release) kernel with the latest patch for this bug to my PPA. If there are i8xx machines with 64-bit, I'll make sure to include a 64-bit build. -- MASTER: [i855] GPU lock

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 456902] Re: [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-05-23 Thread Brian Rogers
That's the information page for the PPA. You'll find instructions for adding it there. But my 'experimental' PPA with a patched kernel is a better option: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/experimental To add it, add this to your sources: ppa:brian-rogers/expe

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2010-05-26 Thread Brian Rogers
Maverick's current kernel and includes Ubuntu-specific patches, unlike a typical upstream kernel build. The 32-bit build is building right now and should be available within a few hours. The PPA is here: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics- fixes This PPA also contains a fix fo

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2010-05-26 Thread Brian Rogers
://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-fixes + To use this fixed kernel, run the following commands: + sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brian-rogers/graphics-fixes + sudo apt-get update + sudo apt-get dist-upgrade + sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.34-52-generic + + NOTE: As of May 26th, 3:54 PM PST

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2010-05-26 Thread Brian Rogers
upstream at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26345 . For now, we mark all automatically reported GPU lockups as duplicates of this unless there is a reason not to. - A fixed kernel is available at https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-fixes + A fixed kernel is available

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-05-27 Thread Brian Rogers
patch for others to test, that would be nice. + to. + + A kernel with the proposed fix is available at https://launchpad.net + /~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-fixes + + To use this fixed kernel, run the following commands: + + sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brian-rogers/graphics-fixes + sudo apt-get

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-05-27 Thread Brian Rogers
I just updated the bug description to point at my PPA containing a kernel with the proposed fix. I would advise people to try this kernel, because it has had plenty of positive feedback so far. Then people can report how it goes, and we can aggregate the data and report it upstream. -- MASTER: [i

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-06-16 Thread Brian Rogers
://launchpad.net /~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-fixes To use this fixed kernel, run the following commands: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brian-rogers/graphics-fixes sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade - sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.34-52-generic + sudo apt-get install linux

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2010-06-16 Thread Brian Rogers
upstream at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26345 . For now, we mark all automatically reported GPU lockups as duplicates of this unless there is a reason not to. A fixed kernel is available at https://launchpad.net/~brian- rogers/+archive/graphics-fixes To use this fixed

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-06-16 Thread Brian Rogers
Julien, did you try linux-image-2.6.34-v9patch-generic from ppa:brian- rogers/graphics-fixes ? It's based on the final 2.6.34, so should have some bug fixes. But if it doesn't work as well as 2.6.34rc7-51-generic, then there's some sort of regression and we'll try to hunt it down. -- MASTER: [i85

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-07-11 Thread Brian Rogers
I just uploaded some new kernels: linux-image-2.6.35rc4-131+ge467e10+nopatch-generic linux-image-2.6.35rc4-131+ge467e10+v9patch-generic Julien, do these kernels help the suspend issue? -- MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541511 You received this bug notifi

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 597094] Re: [q35] compiz causes SDL surfaces to stop animating

2010-08-24 Thread Brian Rogers
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel Remote watch: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #29054 => freedesktop.org Bugzilla #28573 -- [q35] compiz causes SDL surfaces to stop animating https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/597094 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-08-28 Thread Brian Rogers
://launchpad.net /~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-fixes To use this fixed kernel, run the following commands: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brian-rogers/graphics-fixes sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade - sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.34-v9patch-generic + sudo apt-get install

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-08-28 Thread Brian Rogers
Sorry, the instructions at the top of this bug were outdated and referenced an older version of the patched kernel. I fixed that now. Here's the command to install the newest kernel in my PPA: sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.35-v9patch1-generic If you're still on 9.04 these instructions won'

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-08-30 Thread Brian Rogers
Developer Chris Wilson has published a branch of xserver-xorg-video- intel which accesses the graphics card differently and avoids the kinds of operations that cause problems with the old chipsets. I created a PPA for it: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive /intel-shadow This branch is

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2010-08-30 Thread Brian Rogers
Developer Chris Wilson has published a branch of xserver-xorg-video- intel which accesses the graphics card differently and avoids the kinds of operations that cause problems with the old chipsets. I created a PPA for it: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive /intel-shadow This branch is

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2010-08-30 Thread Brian Rogers
Skip, if you haven't wiped your 10.04 system yet, what happens if you remove the 'Option "Shadow" "True"' part? I'm curious if the shadow buffer mode is introducing a new problem or just not fixing an existing problem. If normal 10.04 fails to even show the login screen, then how did you get that v

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-08-31 Thread Brian Rogers
Yeah, the shadow buffer mode does disable OpenGL. I forgot to mention it. It's a sort of safe mode that's a more functional alternative to the vesa driver. I'm refreshing the kernels in my graphics-fixes PPA, since 2.6.35-v9patch1 is getting kind of stale. There have been relevant fixes in the 2.6

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-08-31 Thread Brian Rogers
://launchpad.net /~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-fixes To use this fixed kernel, run the following commands: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brian-rogers/graphics-fixes sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade - sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.35-v9patch1-generic + sudo apt-get install

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2010-08-31 Thread Brian Rogers
John, comments like yours aren't useful. If you don't want to test something that might solve your problem, you're completely free to keep quiet. -- MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541492 You received this bug notification beca

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-08-31 Thread Brian Rogers
I found a bug report for the invisible cursor issue. It's bug 614176 here and upstream here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29413 When there's a fix, I'll put up a new kernel including it. I'll be providing maverick kernels soon as well, so once the cursor bug is fixed, maverick shou

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 616023] Re: nVidia card : X won't start since 1.9 update, no screens found

2010-09-03 Thread Brian Rogers
Does adding Option "UseEvents" "True" into your xorg.conf's Device section help? That option has always improved things for me. -- nVidia card : X won't start since 1.9 update, no screens found https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/616023 You received this bug notification because you are a member o

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-09-04 Thread Brian Rogers
://launchpad.net /~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-fixes To use this fixed kernel, run the following commands: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brian-rogers/graphics-fixes sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade - sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.35-v9patch+19-generic + sudo apt-get install

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-09-05 Thread Brian Rogers
David, I just uploaded a new kernel (currently building for both Lucid and Maverick) that reverts the commit that caused the invisible cursor regression. That way you or anyone else experiencing this bug isn't stuck on an RC kernel until there's a proper fix. The new kernel is linux-image-2.6.35-p

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 628556] Re: Maverick screen freeze with "shadow" intel driver

2010-09-05 Thread Brian Rogers
Can you get a dmesg from after the screen freezes? You might have to ssh in from another computer to do it. -- Maverick screen freeze with "shadow" intel driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/628556 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to x

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-09-05 Thread Brian Rogers
You mean that it freezes temporarily, then resumes, like a stuttering behavior? In that case, do new messages appear in dmesg after a freeze? -- MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541511 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X,

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2010-09-08 Thread Brian Rogers
2.6.35-20 blacklists KMS on the problematic cards. X is then supposed to fall back to vesa. If it doesn't, a bug should be filed for that. If falling back to vesa has enough problems of its own, that decision might be reversed. i915.modeset=1 will override the blacklist, so you can always turn KMS

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2010-09-08 Thread Brian Rogers
Also, to catch up with an older comment... John, Intrepid's driver can't be built for a newer system. I'm also not sure it would solve the problem if someone forward-ported it. As far as I can tell, the driver has always been broken for these chipsets, but was being used in just the right circumst

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2010-09-08 Thread Brian Rogers
Yeah, a separate bug should be filed because it means either the system failed to fallback to vesa when KMS wasn't available or the vesa driver didn't work right. -- MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541492 You received this bug

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 625239] Re: X starts on wrong tty: pressing enter after 5 minutes crashes X

2010-09-10 Thread Brian Rogers
I'd like to point out that this isn't just an nvidia bug. It was originally filed for an ati card, and I'm seeing the problem with intel graphics. It's most likely a kernel/VT bug. -- X starts on wrong tty: pressing enter after 5 minutes crashes X https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/625239 You receiv

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