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

[Jesse Barnes]

On Sunday, December 16, 2007 4:12 Drew Parsons wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 17:01 -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > On Thursday, December 13, 2007 3:28 pm Drew Parsons wrote:
> > > I think it broke in intel 2.2.  That is, I had been using linux
> > > 2.6.22 + intel 2.1.1 at the point where S3 suspend worked [1],
> > > but after the upgrade to intel 2.2 last month, still with linux
> > > 2.6.22, resume no longer worked.
> >
> > Does it hang or crash now?  Or just not restore the display?  These
> > 855GM chips are starting to drive me crazy...
>
> S3 resume simply doesn't restore the display.  Resume works fine,
> that is I can get to the virtual consoles with [Ctrl-]Alt-Fn and
> login.
>
> But the X display initially comes up black, except for the mouse. The
> mouse cursor itself is properly displayed and moves around.
>
> Then when I return to X from the vc via Alt-F7, I can see some of the
> windows with the background behind.  The background at this point is
> painted correctly but the windows are only grey boxes, not fully
> formed. A couple of corrupted icons appear in the top right corner
> where the Gnome Notification icons in the panel would be.  But none
> of the windows (gnome-terminals) seem to respond, keyboard doesn't
> seem to work (except that Ctrl-Alt-Fn still returns to virtual
> consoles).
>
> I ended up rebooting from vc.

This may be an EXA bug (we moved to EXA by default in 2.2).  Zhenyu 
recently fixed an EXA suspend/resume bug in the git tree, can you give 
it a try and see if you still see problems?

Thanks,
Jesse