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wazow

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From: Europe

Registered: 2008-11-11

Posts: 39

Xserver crashes intermittently after a recent (yesterday?) upgrade

I am running arch stable on thinkpad x61s, with

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)

Since yesterday or, so my Xserver crashes every half an hour or so, usually when I do something with keyboard.  I guess that this means that there is some problem with the keyboard driver, or with the graphics driver (as whenever I do something with keyboard, stuff is drawn/redrawn usually).

I believe I have started sufferring from this problem a day or two ago, after a series of upgrades to xorg related packages.  Can anybody give me some hints how to debug it ?  Are there any log files I should check first? This makes my machine essentially unusable.

Last edited by wazow (2009-05-01 20:03:55)

R00KIE

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Registered: 2008-09-14

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Re: Xserver crashes intermittently after a recent (yesterday?) upgrade

If you are using the intel driver then I guess some problems are expected to happen unfortunately, until the newer driver is stable I guess you can use an older driver (search the forum for similar/related problems).

I think the vesa driver will also work fine with intel cards although you will have _no_ acceleration at all, but better no acceleration than not stable at all.

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ijanos

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From: Budapest, Hungary

Registered: 2008-03-30

Posts: 443

Re: Xserver crashes intermittently after a recent (yesterday?) upgrade

Or try the new intel driver from the testing repo. it works fine here.

wazow

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From: Europe

Registered: 2008-11-11

Posts: 39

Re: Xserver crashes intermittently after a recent (yesterday?) upgrade

I am using the intel driver:

        Driver      "intel"
        VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
        BoardName   "Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller"
        BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
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thanks a lot - then I know what is the reason, and will keep an eye on this.  Perhaps I should revert. Today no crash has happened, though.  Let me see how this develops.  At least I am not giving any presentations in this laptop within a week or so.