Bug#438736: intel driver produces kernel crash in a variety of situations

2007-08-19 Thread Robert Millan
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64 Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch1 Severity: important 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 se

Bug#438736: intel driver produces kernel crash in a variety of situations

2007-08-19 Thread Cesare Leonardi
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

Bug#438736: intel driver produces kernel crash in a variety of situations

2007-08-19 Thread Robert Millan
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: > > > > - Whe

Bug#438736: intel driver produces kernel crash in a variety of situations

2007-08-20 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 08:24:18AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > 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. Btw, tried the vesa driver as you s

Bug#438736: intel driver produces kernel crash in a variety of situations

2007-08-20 Thread Cesare Leonardi
Robert Millan wrote: 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'm not a X expert but the server contains many drivers that interact with the graphics hardware, i