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DullOnion

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Registered: 2011-10-14

Posts: 8

Constant freezing on Acer Aspire One with newest Intel drivers

lspci -v produces the following:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0349
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 42
        Memory at 58180000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
        I/O ports at 60c0 [size=8]
        Memory at 40000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Memory at 58000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915

The upgrades which I suspect are the cause of my problems are the following:

[2013-05-25 12:10] [PACMAN] upgraded mesa (9.1.2-1 -> 9.1.3-1)
[2013-05-25 12:10] [PACMAN] upgraded mesa-libgl (9.1.2-1 -> 9.1.3-1)
[2013-05-25 12:10] [PACMAN] upgraded intel-dri (9.1.2-1 -> 9.1.3-1)
[2013-05-25 12:11] [PACMAN] upgraded xf86-video-intel (2.21.6-1 -> 2.21.7-1)

My problem is that the display will either get extremely laggy or outright not respond at all, requiring a hard restart of X by ctrl + alt + backspace.  This is reproducible by letting the screen blank after idling, and then attempting to wake it up.  Downgrading the packages seems to have resolved the issue.  Anyone else experiencing this?

reztho

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Registered: 2007-12-16

Posts: 44

Re: Constant freezing on Acer Aspire One with newest Intel drivers

I'm suffering of this too with an Acer laptop, not netbook. I've noticed cached memory (free -m) is constantly increasing without any reason: the led of my hard drive is off plenty of time and no IO in iotop.
I've downgraded xf86-video-intel to previous version and this behaviour is fixed.

I think since you have less ram than me, your system run into problems in less time easily.

Jodell

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Registered: 2009-10-09

Posts: 285

Re: Constant freezing on Acer Aspire One with newest Intel drivers

What DE are you using?

Also check dmesg and see if you see any gpu hung messages.

Last edited by Jodell (2013-05-27 21:25:24)

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,607

Re: Constant freezing on Acer Aspire One with newest Intel drivers

Upgrade. 2.21.7 has a known memory leak and other issues, 2.21.8 is already out that fixes it.