I now installed Xubuntu Jaunty on my Eee pc 901 after having had crashes described in bug linked above.
At first I thought everything was ok, but today X has crashed twice, screen goes black, gdm restarts and Im back at the login screen. Seemingly at random.
I dont know whether I should comment here - https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/bugs/ 337116
or on this one...
I now installed Xubuntu Jaunty on my Eee pc 901 after having had crashes described in bug linked above.
At first I thought everything was ok, but today X has crashed twice, screen goes black, gdm restarts and Im back at the login screen. Seemingly at random.
Snippet from syslog:
Apr 27 23:59:44 Nokkalaama kernel: [ 4370.303321] [drm:i915_ get_vblank_ counter] *ERROR* trying to get vblank count for disabled pipe 0 xioerror_ handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
Apr 27 23:59:44 Nokkalaama gdm[3011]: WARNING: gdm_slave_
Apr 27 23:59:46 Nokkalaama acpid: client connected from 7350[0:0]
Apr 27 23:59:47 Nokkalaama kernel: [ 4373.932997] [drm:i915_setparam] *ERROR* unknown parameter 4
Apr 27 23:59:47 Nokkalaama kernel: [ 4373.934549] [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 6
Apr 27 23:59:49 Nokkalaama kernel: [ 4375.319637] [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 6
kern.log: get_vblank_ counter] *ERROR* trying to get vblank count for disabled pipe 0
Apr 27 23:12:24 Nokkalaama kernel: [ 1530.143499] [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 6
Apr 27 23:34:13 Nokkalaama kernel: [ 2839.118634] EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
Apr 27 23:59:44 Nokkalaama kernel: [ 4370.303321] [drm:i915_
Apr 27 23:59:47 Nokkalaama kernel: [ 4373.932997] [drm:i915_setparam] *ERROR* unknown parameter 4
Apr 27 23:59:47 Nokkalaama kernel: [ 4373.934549] [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 6
Apr 27 23:59:49 Nokkalaama kernel: [ 4375.319637] [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 6
Ill see about doing a backtrace tomorrow. I havent done that before and dont have the programs installed.