FS#11875 - Fatal X server crash with intel X4500 - kernel patch needed

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jan M. (funkyou) - Friday, 24 October 2008, 19:11 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Sunday, 09 November 2008, 13:28 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Kernel
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Hi there,

it seems that this happens only on X4500 chipsets: X crashes with a fatal error on startup and the screen goes black, but the machine doesnt freeze and i can switch to another tty etc...

Packages are the latest from testing...

xorg-server 1.5.2-3
intel-dri 7.2-1
xf86-video-intel 2.5.0-1
libdrm 2.4.0-1

...and this is already a known problem, check these posts:

Problem: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-October/039591.html
Solution: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-October/039599.html

I have added the attached patch to the kernel26 package and X starts up again.

Well, the new intel driver also broke direct rendering again, but thats something for another bug report :)

Greetings

Jan
   Xorg.0.log (15.5 KiB)
   drm-intel.git-2052746fc839713... (2.3 KiB)
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Sunday, 09 November 2008, 13:28 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed

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