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decibelmute

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VMWare Direct3D freezes display, Intel GEM issue?

I'm running VMWare 7.0.1, and trying to make Direct3D work under it in a Windows XP guest. I have xorg-server 1.7.6, kernel version 2.6.33.2, and xf86-video-intel 2.10.0.

Right now, when an application using direct3d is running, everything works surprisingly well. After closing the program the virtual machine display will freeze until the mouse is released, at which point the machine will run normally until the mouse is recaptured.

Restarting the machine does not fix the issue, and attempting to zap the X server via ctrl-alt-bksp causes the entire system to freeze, leaving only an unresponsive black screen. Switching back to the virtual terminal without killing the X server first revealed the message:

X: intel_bufmgr_gem.c:900: drm_intel_gem_bo_unreference_locked_timed: Assertion `((&bo_gem->refcount)->atomic) > 0' failed

This looks to be an issue with Intel's GEM, though I know very little about it and a google search for the error returned zero results. All help is appreciated