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quadomatic

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Registered: 2009-06-22

Posts: 46

Intel GM965, XPS m1330 compiz/video crashes

I'm having relatively frequent crashes on my Dell XPS m1330. It has an Intel GM965 display adapter.

The system will either crash leaving me with mouse control but with no response, or with a complete lockup where the screen is frozen and has absolutely no response. Performance is okay.

Here's what I have installed:

kernel26 2.6.29.4-1
xf86-video-intel 2.7.1-1
xorg-server 1.6.1.901-1

Here's my xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "dri2"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName    "Monitor Model"
    HorizSync    30.0 - 130.0
    VertRefresh    50.0 - 100.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ColorKey"               # <i>
        #Option     "CacheLines"             # <i>
        #Option     "Dac6Bit"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DRI"                    # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoDDC"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShowCache"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "XvMCSurfaces"           # <i>
        #Option     "PageFlip"               # [<bool>]
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "intel"
    VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
    BoardName   "Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller"
    BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
    Option    "AccelMethod" "EXA"
    Option    "ExaNoComposite" "false"
    Option    "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
    Option    "EnablePageFlip" "true"
    Option    "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option    "VBERestore" "False"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     1
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
        Modes    "1280x800"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

#Section "Extensions"
#    Option "Composite" "Enable"
#EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "DontZap" "false"
EndSection

What should I do?

combuster

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-09-30

Posts: 711

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Re: Intel GM965, XPS m1330 compiz/video crashes

You could install xf86-video-intel-git from aur or compile the latest snapshot of xf86-video-intel from git... But you will have to enable kms...

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=69083

After that u will not need xorg.conf at all, everything should work fine...

quadomatic

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Registered: 2009-06-22

Posts: 46

Re: Intel GM965, XPS m1330 compiz/video crashes

I just upgraded the kernel to 2.6.30, upgraded to xf86-video-intel-git, and enabled kms according to the instructions in the wiki.

I'm not sure whether I'm getting a performance increase. Stability seems fine for now. However there appears to be some weird transparency glitch now with compiz effects, where it takes half a second longer for the background for some window/menu button to draw then the content. Maybe compiz needs an upgrade.

Shapeshifter

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Registered: 2008-03-11

Posts: 230

Re: Intel GM965, XPS m1330 compiz/video crashes

quadomatic. That bug has been present for a long time when using UXA, which is beeing used by default when using KMS (or something like that). There's already a patch floating around, and I guess it will get fixed soon. Until then, i'm simply avoiding transparency stuff in compiz. btw I'm experiencing the same crashes, got the same chipset as you do. I'm still being patient. Today there was a new intel-dri package, maybe it fixed the problems. Looking forward to the next intel driver....

quadomatic

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Registered: 2009-06-22

Posts: 46

Re: Intel GM965, XPS m1330 compiz/video crashes

Yeah, I ended up installing the new intel-dri patch today. I haven't had a crash since upgrading. I messed around with compiz for a bit trying to make it crash but it didn't.

Last edited by quadomatic (2009-07-01 00:59:53)

quadomatic

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Registered: 2009-06-22

Posts: 46

Re: Intel GM965, XPS m1330 compiz/video crashes

I'm still getting crashes unfortunately

Any other ideas?

Last edited by quadomatic (2009-07-04 23:09:36)

combuster

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-09-30

Posts: 711

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Re: Intel GM965, XPS m1330 compiz/video crashes

About slow redrawing of the background, I've filed bug report on bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22503
If u turn of fading and animations plugin in compiz the problem is gone but you miss some of the fancy stuff...

About crashes I wouldn't blame just yet intel drivers, I'm running xf86-video-intel from git and the rest of the stuff is from arch repos except kernel wich is custom 2.6.31-rc2 (I had big performance jump with 2.6.31 series) and stability is great, no crashes, no video tearing, no windowed apps in fullscreen, the only problem is the one with slow redrawing but that is compiz fault I think...

cptr13

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From: Mobile, Alabama

Registered: 2009-03-27

Posts: 19

Re: Intel GM965, XPS m1330 compiz/video crashes

I don't know if this is an ideal solve, but I use the intel legacy driver and havn't crashed since.