Need help understanding X server freeze

[Felix Miata]

jeetu.golani at gmail.com composed on 2016-10-04 10:14 (UTC+0530):

>>Maybe try the modesetting driver at least on the Intel/Sid installation.

> Unfortunately when I use the default modesetting driver my X
> consistently crashes simply by starting gnome-terminal and doing
> something simple like traversing it's menus. This causes the entire X
> server to crash and restart back to the login.

> I read others having this problem with Debian Unstable and the
> recommendation was to move back to the Intel driver.

> Is there some way for me to gather more debugging information from the
> server so that when ssh over my tunnel causes a freeze I can figure
> out what has happened?

I'm no expert on remote troubles. I suggest to focus on Intel/Sid by reading
https://01.org/linuxgraphics/documentation/how-report-bugs and
https://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging/
if you haven't already, and providing all appropriate information on the 
intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org mailing list. If someone there says to report 
elsewhere, the response should come with more specific info as to what to 
provide, and more importantly, to which list. Surely you'll need to provide 
basic info, such as motherboard model (to know which generation chipset) and 
output from 'lspci | grep VGA' plus hwinfo and/or inxi and an Xorg log.

Maybe first try a different login manager and/or DE. Gnome is surely the 
first or second most demanding from the X server of all DEs, so may be the 
root problem.
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