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Pank

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From: IT

Registered: 2009-06-13

Posts: 371

Gnome and Intel graphics reboot on high load

Hi,

I have a problem where my Thinkpad W530 with Intel HD 4000 reboots when doing graphically "intensive" stuff.  It seems to happen when using Gnome with the Intel iGPU.  Note that "intensive stuff" could be watching a movie or playing a 2D game.

I can reproduce this bug "almost surely" when running Furmark (AUR)  for ten minutes in both my regular Arch setup and with the Fedora 21-Gnome live USB.  I can run Furmark for a pretty long time (30+ minutes) without crashes on: Fedora LXDE-spin live USB, my regular Arch setup with i3, and on Windows 7.  Edit: actually it just crashed on my i3 setup after I re-enabled Nvidia Optimus in the bios.

I have tried various combinations of "AccelMethod" and "TearFree" for the Intel driver configuration.  At the moment I'm using sna acceleration, TearFree and i915.semaphores=1.

I've done extensive tests of my hardware with memtest86+ and mprime and I highly doubt it's a hardware issue.

I'm not sure how to get more information what exactly is going wrong and whether this is an Intel driver.

I'd appreciate any hints on this.

Last edited by Pank (2015-03-04 12:25:57)

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Arch x64 on Thinkpad X200s/W530

Pank

Member

From: IT

Registered: 2009-06-13

Posts: 371

Re: Gnome and Intel graphics reboot on high load

My brother has the same problem his  Thinkpda W530 (with a different CPU and RAM) on sid.  Reported upstream.

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Arch x64 on Thinkpad X200s/W530