On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 12:21:12AM +0200, Cesare Leonardi wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > >I've recently upgraded my hardware (motherboard + cpu + ram) and am now > >getting Linux crashes in a variety of situations. I've detected them > >when any of the following conditions are met: > > > > - When starting a second X session. > > - When time goes backwards (e.g. due to ntpdate) while X is running (but > > NOT when X isn't running) > > - When stopping X. > > [...] > > > - X driver is xserver-xorg-video-i810. Card model: > > Are you sure this is a kernel bug?
Well, since X is a userland process, I wouldn't expect it to be able to crash the kernel, even if it plays with /dev/agpgart in a bad way. It can even be a security issue. > I see that the constant is that crashes happen when X is running (or > when is finishing running). > You are using xserver-xorg-video-i810, but since some months this is a > transitional package that points to the newer (and less stable) > xserver-xorg-video-intel. > Since this transition i had noticed numerous crash (and various problems > using video applications, but these seems to be resolved), and reading > some bug reports seems that this driver still has different problems on > which Intel is working on. > I suggest you to look at: > http://bugs.debian.org/xserver-xorg-video-intel Yes, I've seen those reports. That's why I holded on backporting the driver from testing/sid to my etch system. > In the meanwhile try to use the generic vesa driver to see if the > crashes still happens. If they will not occur anymore, you can try with > the intel driver from unstable or experimental. > If they'll persists... this could be a kernel bug. ;-) Do you know if Linux had improvements in this area from 2.6.18 to 2.6.22 ? -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]