forwarded 610244 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26937
thanks

Hello,

On penktadienis 18 Kovas 2011 06:38:14 Daniel Gibson wrote:
> I think I have got the same bug on my laptop that uses the free intel
> graphics driver - but not on my desktop PC that uses fglrx.
> Both systems use up to date Squeeze amd64 and iceweasel.
> 
> I agree with Henrik that X doesn't actually crash. The fullscreen image of
> the video freezes, but when trying to leave fullscreen the video goes on
> playing (I hear the sound) and the mouse cursor also acts like I'm back in
> non-fullscreen mode, i.e. it changes at the border of windows for resizing
> etc.
> However I haven't found a way to get rid of that frozen fullscreen video
> image, so I also had to kill X to get a usable desktop again.
> 
> Furthermore /maybe/ this happens when something is displayed on top of the
> fullscreen image, like a message from xosd-bin (when I press the laptops
> volume buttons I have messages displayed) - but this could have been a
> coincidence.

This is intel video driver bug which is pretty common when using kwin (kde-
window-manager) with OpenGL desktop effects enabled. Not sure if you want to 
reassign it given the flash plugin is proprietary. On the other hand, 
userspace software should never be able to crash an X server.

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