Major stability issues with xf86-video-intel 2.2.0 when using Xv

[Willi Mann]

Rémi Cardona schrieb:
> Hi all,
> 
> We've recently updated the intel driver to 2.2.0 in Gentoo and while the
> overall experience is fine, Xv support on my 855 had major regressions
> since 2.1.1
> 
> Usually, playing a video will crash X at some point without any user
> input (after something like 10 to 20 minutes). If I touch the video
> program - totem or mplayer in my trials - like minimizing or putting
> another window in front of it, or switching VT, then X will crash a few
> seconds to a few minutes after restarting playback. (or even
> instantaneously if the video is still running)
> 
> Most of the time, only X crashes (with a randomly colorful screen) but
> sometimes X will freeze the whole machine.
> 
> Attached is a Xorg log of one of my many crashes. It's the only log I
> managed to get, since all other crashes produced no output whatsoever.
> 
> What's changed wrt Xv support since 2.1 on 855? Are there any
> alternatives to git-bisect to help find the change?

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13108

Might actually be an xserver bug, that's fixed in xserver git. I haven't
tested yet.

Willi