On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 13:32 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 02:22:31PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan
wrote:
>
> I'm running without KMS on my desktop machine, and that's where I get
> freezes when I use OpenGL apps (not otherwise). As stated earlier, this
> is an Intel 82Q963/Q965 rev 02. This system is x86_64 with an Intel
> mobo. I used to have frequent OpenGL freezes (everything dead except the
> mouse) which I reported at
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510948. The problem seemed
> to go away with a kernel update, to kernel-2.6.30.5-32.fc11.x86_64, but
> now seems to have returned in kernel-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64 and
> kernel-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.x86_64,
Hm, I have seen recently random total freezes of that sort
(everything is dead, including a network, and no traces of anything
anywhere) while running xscreensaver-gl* pieces on Fedora 11 desktop
machine but with radeon graphics driver. So maybe this is some
nasty interaction between OpenGL and recent fc11 kernels instead of
an intel driver fault?
Could be. I was surprised when the kernel update fixed the problem, at
least temporarily, expecting it to be more an xorg-x11-drv-intel thing.
I tried remote access several times before the kernel 2.6.30.5 update
and ssh was working at that time. There was no way to kill Xorg or get
to runlevel 3 but the shell worked and I could run reboot. I assumed
kernel corruption of some kind. I haven't tried it again with the more
recent updates.
Turning off specific xscreensaver-gl executables (sometimes one sees
leftover image fragments on a screen indicating an apparent
offender) was of no help.
I use a simple screensaver, and I'm not getting any freezes except when
running OpenGL apps.
poc