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  1. Bug #359392 (x-freeze-apr3)
  2. Comment #477

Comment 477 for bug 359392

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Geir Ove Myhr (gomyhr) wrote : Re: [Bug 359392] Re: [i965] X freezes starting on April 3rd

>> You have GM45 chipset. Some of the newer chipsets don't list the
>> numbers and names in the lspci, so I prefer to look in Xorg.0.log.
>
> But is it supposed to be an affected chipset? Before of the
> workaround-upload I had a lot of freezes: now they are quiet rare. If I
> have a further freeze should, I open a new bug report?

I don't know if it is supposed to be. That is, I don't know if the
driver treats the 965GM and GM45 differently in any way. What I do
know is that the function IS_I965G in the driver returns true for the
GM45 chipset (see my first long comment on bug 370777), so it may be
similar enough that it is the same underlying problem. The workaround
uses the IS_I965G function to decide whether to apply it or not, so it
will be applied to your GM45 chipset.

However, all the duplicates of this bug were reported on 965GM
chipsets, so I think it is best to keep it separate until proven
otherwise (or someone who knows the hardware and the driver well says
that they're basically the same). If you can get GPU dumps from a
freeze using the 2.7.1 driver from the x-updates PPA (Personal Package
Archive) and file it in a separate bug report, I think that may be
helpful.