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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #359392 (x-freeze-apr3)
  2. Comment #434

Comment 434 for bug 359392

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Soeren Sonnenburg (bugreports-nn7) wrote : Re: [Bug 359392] Re: [i965] X freezes starting on April 3rd

On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 03:53 +0000, Andres Mujica wrote:
> Jithin, Wirechief. without your help debugging and testing workarounds
> and hacks for solving this issue we weren't where we are now, i mean at
> the very first appearence of this bug, 4-5 freezes per day was standard
> now we're about several weeks without freezes.

YMMV, once per day here.

The problem here is, that 'we' don't know whether people are working on
it and also if there is anything 'we' can do to help. Please keep us
up-to-date.

> Sure you can look for a different distribution, but as this bug is
> crossdistro probably you'll face it again. So please bear with us in
> the meantime. I'm confident that this would be solved soon. A lot of
> people are working on it.

The only thing to criticize here is that this showstopper was known
before jaunty was released, so IMHO it would have been worth delaying
jaunty (it now went through the press and might have caused more much
more damage).