915GM partially freeze after being idle or resume

Jérôme Poulin jeromepoulin at gmail.com
Tue Nov 17 18:37:25 PST 2009


On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Your symptoms exactly describe a wedged GPU. There is a very good chance
> that a 2.6.31 kernel would fix your issue.
This issue last since 2.6.27 introduced KMS and with every kernel
release I hopped it fixed the problem, but it does not.

>
> It looks here that your entire stack is pretty old.  I would highly
> recommend that you upgrade your stack; people generally don't enjoy
> debugging problems that have already (possibly) been solved.  I've
> experienced no graphics instability whatsoever on my GM965 Karmic box[1]
> in the last few months.
My current box is an HP laptop 6530b with GM45 graphic card.

>
> - Ben
>
> [1]
> DDX: 2.9.0
> xserver: 1.6.4
> mesa: 7.6.0
> libdrm: 2.4.14
> kernel: 2.6.31
I will try you very exact setup to see if there's improvement.

Wernet LEMBERG wrote:
>
>Perhaps you've missed my report a few days ago sent to this list for
>probably the same issue but using a 945GM and a 2.6.32-rc5 kernel...
Do you also have problem panning in GIMP and having multiple display
displaying in a freezing xrandr?



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