Intel and Xorg freeze - what may be the problem?

[Gábor Lénárt]

Hei,

Maybe this report is similar to this one (ubuntu bugreport):

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/554835

But I am not sure it's really the same, though ...

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:10:29AM +0200, Łukasz Maśko wrote:
> Today I got my Xorg display (under KDE) frozen. Keyboard and mouse were 
> responding, but nothing was changing on the display (but mouse pointer, 
> which moved). What was interesting, was a message in the console:
> 
> (EE) intel(0): Failed to submit batch buffer, expect rendering corruption or 
> even a frozen display: Input/output error.
> intel_bufmgr_gem.c:1060: Error setting domain 11869: Input/output error
> 
> In the same time, in syslog I got this:
> 
> Apr 20 08:37:10 laptok kernel: : [drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* 
> Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung
> Apr 20 08:37:10 laptok kernel: : render error detected, EIR: 0x00000000
> Apr 20 08:37:10 laptok kernel: : [drm:i915_do_wait_request] *ERROR* 
> i915_do_wait_request returns -5 (awaiting 2935568 at 2935567)
> 
> What may be the reason my laptop behaved like this? Usually my machine is 
> rock steady. I'm using intel driver 2.11.0, kernel 2.6.33.2 and xserver 
> 1.7.6 (with 1.8.0 xrandr is not working). My graphics chip is Intel i945GM.
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> Łukasz Maśko                                           GG:   2441498    _o)
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