after upgrading to 2.6.33 i decided to test the overlay feature implemented. when running with overlay enabled, playing a video usually hangs the system. with this i mean, the screen freezes, video stops playing, but i can still ssh into the box. after some testing as described in the bug i posted in the kernel bugzilla here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15389 the conclusion is that the GPU is actually not hung, and that userspace is stalled. ive already tried backtracing X, but when te freeze happens, X doesnt break execution. hardware involved: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) xorg.conf relevant snippet Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "intel" VendorName "Intel Corporation" BoardName "Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller" BusID "PCI:0:2:0" Option "XvPreferOverlay" "True" EndSection i already fetched a gpu dump which is here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=25200 any extra info needed, i will happily provide.
i forgot to mention: dmesg comes in clean. Xorg.0.log is clean too. no error anywhere.
Forward dup'ing. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 29007 ***
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