Some issues with video-intel-2.7.1

Paul B. Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Wed Jul 1 12:17:50 UTC 2009


On 7/1/09, Aragon Gouveia <aragon at phat.za.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently installed a new system from the 200906 8.0 snapshot ISO.  I'm
> having a couple of issues when running latest Xorg/Xserver/video-intel
> from ports:
>
> * The only way to restart X without killing the vtys is by using
> ctrl+alt+backspace. If my window manager exits normally, when Xorg
> restarts it leaves the vtys with horizontal stripey garbage on the
> screen.  Switching to/from Xorg/vtys using ctrl+alt shortcuts works fine
> though.
>
> * Xorg only runs reliably if used straight after a fresh boot of the
> system.  After Xorg is restarted everything just starts
> pausing/stuttering at random, even the xdm login screen.
>
> For the second point, I've attached two Xorg.log files.  The first is
> the log file straight after a fresh boot, and the second a log file
> after a Xorg restart.  The interesting bit is if they're diffed.
>
> My Xorg gets spawned by xdm which gets spawned by init.  My package
> versions:
>
> xorg-server-1.6.1,1
> xf86-video-intel-2.7.1
> mesa 7.4.4 (libGL, libGLU, dri)
>
> Something else of interest is that my kernel logs this on Xorg restarts:
>
> <kern.crit> kernel: error: [drm:pid1619:i915_get_vblank_counter] *ERROR*
> trying to get vblank count for disabled pipe 0

Recently, CURRENT get some more drm changes that address vsync problems.
One of them fixed problem with vblank you mentioned above.

-- 
Paul


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