Comment 217 for bug 541511

@Elena M. Lopez ("Nena")
OK. Thanks. There is more to it than just the I855 graphics card I'm afraid.
When I run that link on a (very old) Compaq Evo N600c with Lucid installed,
the system reboots spontaneously. And the EVO does not have an I855 graphics
card.
Hope also that a full fix is fortcoming.
Regards
Pieter van der Ploeg

2010/5/5 Elena M. Lopez ("Nena") <email address hidden>

> @pvanderploeg,
> An emphatic yes, I can replicate your described crash on my D400 when
> playing the embedded video in FF that you linked to. I was able to see the
> ad, but as soon as the video loaded up, my screen dropped to the black
> screen with the single blinking cursor, and I had to force a shutdown of the
> system. I've been able to watch other (flash) videos in FF fine before I
> tried this embedded video. Hopefully a full fix is forthcoming.
>
> @lispy,
> Yes, 3D acceleration is enabled.
> glxinfo | grep direct --> "direct rendering = yes"
> glxgears --> outputs avg. of ~1200 fps
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> MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541511
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> Status in Ubuntu Release Notes: Fix Committed
> Status in X.org xf86-video-intel: Confirmed
> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” source package in Lucid: Triaged
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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel
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> This is a MASTER bug report, i.e. not a real bug report, but a tool to help
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> Most bug reports on i855 are probably due to the CPU/GPU incoherency
> problem that is now consolidated upstream at
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27187 (which was split off
> from a bug report for i845). For now, we mark all automatically reported GPU
> lockups on i855 as duplicates of this unless there is a reason not to. There
> are some tests you may do to help upstream with this issue, and I will come
> back with instructions here. For those of you who know how to patch and
> compile a kernel you may look at comment #30 (and #6 for what kind of
> feedback they want) in the upstream bug report. Actually, if someone could
> volunteer to build an ubuntu-packaged kernel with this patch for others to
> test, that would be nice.
>
> There is a similar master bug report for i845 at bug 541492.
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