Advice to lose (or minimize) computer freezes with intel card

Ben Gamari bgamari.foss at gmail.com
Thu Jul 22 21:15:32 PDT 2010


 > Hello,
 > 
 > I suppose you are familiar with the topic, there are lots of bug reports (
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 > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=intel+freeze,
 > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=629896) and forum threads. I
 > have a computer with card "Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML
 > Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)".
 > 
 Interesting that you mention this. A patch[1] just went into the latest
 2.6.35-rc kernel which likely addresses the issue you mention.  You may
 want to give this kernel a try if you feel up for it.

 - Ben


 [1] http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail//linux/kernel/1007.2/01471.html



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