Loading i915 module panics my system after patching with Intel GPU patch 14.4 for stable/9

[Kevin Oberman]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Jose Garcia Juanino <jjuanino at gmail.com> wrote:
> El viernes 27 de abril a las 22:25:48 CEST, Jose Garcia Juanino escribió:
>>
>> 2- startx with intel driver
>> X session takes a lot of time until it appears (1 minute). From a ssh
>> session, I see the Xorg process to consume the 100% of cpu time (kernel
>> time, not user time). But once the screen is showed up, it looks fine.
>> Fonts are well displayed and depth color is 24 (vesa only supports 8).
>> After a few minutes, CPU time drops until 0%, and it is possible to use
>> the computer. But if I try to move the mouse, again the cpu time
>> increase until 100% for 1 minute, and the system is unresponsive. Only I
>> can use the computer by mean of the keyboard after cpu consume drops
>> again.
>
> I forget to say that it is not possible to switch between console and X
> session by mean of CTRL+ALT+FN. For example, CTRL+ALT+F1 freeze the
> current image (with a lower resolution, maybe 8 bits).  However,
> keystrokes are correctly sent to the console, and it is possible to
> execute any command (blindly). This anomaly does not happen with vesa
> driver.

Switching to vtys is documented as being unimplemented when the
intel-kms driver is used, so this is a well known problem. I'm hoping
it happens rather soon as I really do miss them.

No idea about the mouse causing something to eat the CPU. Sorry.
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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