On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 20:17, Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com> wrote:
Affects Skylake and Kabylake so far, I'm not sure how extensive it is
within each series, but as F31 has rebased to 5.4 I thought I'd give a
heads up. It's actually somewhat rare, I have an npm+electron chat app
that seems to hit this way more often than say Firefox (and I'm not
chatting near as much as I'm webbing).

[drm:gen8_reset_engines [i915]] *ERROR* rcs0 reset request timed out
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1780800

If you hit it, revert to 5.3.18 and if you want cc to the bug report
with CPU model. Another idea is to use a current 5.5.0rc, it's fixed
there but the backport is giving upstream devs some grief so I'm not
sure when it's going to get fixed in 5.4. I think part of the delay is
also the two holidays falling on Wednesdays :D


Arch Linux often has good documentation.  Intel Graphics
has a section:

X freeze/crash with intel driver

Some issues with X crashing, GPU hanging, or problems with X freezing, can be fixed by disabling the GPU usage with the NoAccel option - add the following lines to your configuration file:

  Option "NoAccel" "True"

Alternatively, try to disable the 3D acceleration only with the DRI option:

  Option "DRI" "False"

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George N. White III