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Bob P
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 Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 7:44 pm Post subject: Random Video Lockups with i810 Video Chipset |
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I've been running a new Gentoo installation and I'm suffering from random lockups. When the system locks, the video becomes scrambled into an array of colored vertical lines and the system becomes totally unresponsive, requiring a hard reboot.
I'm using kernel gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.x, genkernel, and KDE 3.3.0. my PC is a dell optiplex GX110 (P3-800) that is a red-hat certified system. it has an intel i810 graphics system and i'm running at 1280*1024 at the minimum refresh rate.
Fwiw, i have been subjected to these sorts of lockups with SuSE 9.1, Mandrake 10.0, and Gentoo. I've tried all 3 of these distros to try to eliminate this persistent problem. Fwiw, its linux-specific and its not heat related -- the Win systems run on this PC for days on end with no problems. |
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jludwig
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| Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 7:56 pm Post subject: Re: Random Video Lockups with i810 Video Chipset |
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| Bob P wrote: | | I've been running a new Gentoo installation and I'm suffering from random lockups. When the system locks, the video becomes scrambled into an array of colored vertical lines and the system becomes totally unresponsive, requiring a hard reboot. |
Bob,
Not that this is any help, but there is thread running right now about x.org lock-ups (link below) where folks seem to be having trouble with that particular chipset, altho older versions of xfree86 don't seem to have that problem. What I find interesting is that the problem is also present with other distros, methinks this really needs to get filed as an upstream bug with the proper authoirities (either the kernels folks or x.org, dunno I think xorg would be the first). Can you try migrating to an Xfree86 X11 server and see if this fixes the problem?
Other thread:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=198023&highlight=
If using xfree-4.3.0-r7.ebuild fixes this problem please file with bugzillla @ xorg and post a link to that bug in both threads...
Jeff
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Bob P
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Jeff, thanks for the tip. At least one user has the identical Dell Optiplex GX110 system that I'm using, and he's reporting the exact same problems. He seems to have isolated it to the current release of X11.
At present I cannot migrate to an Xfree86 X11 server, as my machine became so worthless because of this bug that I let Windows XP reformat the drive. I'd like to try reinstalling Gentoo, but I have never tied installing Gentoo on top of XP. If I can install Gentoo on the unformatted partition that I left on the physical disk, I may try reinstalling Gentoo and giving it another shot... |
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