Intel driver 2.11.0 + lid close event = GPU freeze

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Łukasz Maśko at 14/05/10 10:17 did gyre and gimble:
> I've just noticed, that whenever I close my laptop's lid, my whole X system 
> freezes. I can switch to a console, but restarting X or even rebooting 
> computer is not helping, I must turn off the machine and start it again. In 
> the log file I'm getting such error:
> 
> (EE) intel(0): Failed to submit batch buffer, expect rendering corruption or 
> even a frozen display: Input/output error.
> (WW) intel(0): i830_uxa_prepare_access: gtt bo map failed: Input/output 
> error
> (WW) intel(0): i830_uxa_prepare_access: gtt bo map failed: Input/output 
> error
> 
> I have an Intel 945GM graphics chipset driven by intel driver 2.11.0 and 
> kernel 2.6.33.3. I'm still using xserver 1.7.6, because xrandr refuses to 
> work correnctly under 1.8.0 for me.
> 
> Does anybody now, what may be the problem?

I do have this problem sometimes too, but I don't actually close my lid
very often so never actually took this further.

Can you ask the buys on #intel-gfx on freenode or intel-gfx mailing list?

Cheers

Col

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