[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2057684] [NEW] Backport a fix from Pulseaudio 17 to fix playback timing problems affecting GStreamer and other pulseaudio and pipewire audio clients

2024-03-12 Thread Mario Kleiner
Public bug reported:

This is a request for a backport of an existing bug fix, present in the
recent Pulseaudio version 17 upstream release, to the outdated
Pulseaudio 16 releases in jammy - noble.

Affects: Ubuntu 22.04.0 LTS and all later versions.

The fix fixes an annoying start of playback timing bug that affects my
own software package octave-psychtoolbox-3 (part of Ubuntu universe),
see
https://github.com/Psychtoolbox-3/Psychtoolbox-3/issues/814#issuecomment-1723827374
which uses GStreamer for video and audio playback. Psychtoolbox is a
very popular toolkit for neuroscience and related medical research, with
Ubuntu as the recommended target distribution. It requires high
reliability in audio and video presentation timing, so the bug described
in the various links below is serious to our users.

The bug also in the same way affects other media applications in Ubuntu
which play back audio via the default (auto-plugged) pulseaudiosink
GStreamer plugin. See GStreamer bug report
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/issues/1735). The
GStreamer bug turned out to be a pulseaudio client library bug (in
libpulse.so.0).

Any native pulseaudio client is affected, even if pipewire is used as
desktop sound server in recent Ubuntu releases, given that many audio
applications still access pipewire via its pulseaudio frontend (package
pipewire-pulse). See pipewire bug
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/3399

The bug in libpulse.so.0, reported against Pulseaudio 16 in
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues/1383 has
been fixed for the Pulseaudio 17 release.

See the following merge request for the following trivial one-liner
patch that would need to be backported to Ubuntu's current
implementation:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/745/diffs

I hoped that Pulseaudio 17 would be included in Debian in time for
integration into Ubuntu 24.04-LTS, but apparently not much maintenance
of pulseaudio is happening on the Debian side at the moment.

Given that this bug affects all Ubuntu versions since Ubuntu 22.04-LTS,
I'd ask kindly for a backport, ideally for Pulseaudio 15.99.1 in
22.04-LTS and Pulseaudio 16.1 in upcoming 24.04-LTS, but at least for
the upcoming 24.04-LTS.

Alternatively it would have been great to get Pulseaudio upgraded to
version 17 for upcoming Ubuntu 22.04-LTS to fix many more bugs, but
apparently that is too late now, according to
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+question/709476

Thanks,
-mario

** Affects: pulseaudio (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New


** Tags: gstreamer pipewire pulseaudio sound timing

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Title:
  Backport a fix from Pulseaudio 17 to fix playback timing problems
  affecting GStreamer and other pulseaudio and pipewire audio clients

Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This is a request for a backport of an existing bug fix, present in
  the recent Pulseaudio version 17 upstream release, to the outdated
  Pulseaudio 16 releases in jammy - noble.

  Affects: Ubuntu 22.04.0 LTS and all later versions.

  The fix fixes an annoying start of playback timing bug that affects my
  own software package octave-psychtoolbox-3 (part of Ubuntu universe),
  see
  
https://github.com/Psychtoolbox-3/Psychtoolbox-3/issues/814#issuecomment-1723827374
  which uses GStreamer for video and audio playback. Psychtoolbox is a
  very popular toolkit for neuroscience and related medical research,
  with Ubuntu as the recommended target distribution. It requires high
  reliability in audio and video presentation timing, so the bug
  described in the various links below is serious to our users.

  The bug also in the same way affects other media applications in
  Ubuntu which play back audio via the default (auto-plugged)
  pulseaudiosink GStreamer plugin. See GStreamer bug report
  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/issues/1735). The
  GStreamer bug turned out to be a pulseaudio client library bug (in
  libpulse.so.0).

  Any native pulseaudio client is affected, even if pipewire is used as
  desktop sound server in recent Ubuntu releases, given that many audio
  applications still access pipewire via its pulseaudio frontend
  (package pipewire-pulse). See pipewire bug
  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/3399

  The bug in libpulse.so.0, reported against Pulseaudio 16 in
  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues/1383 has
  been fixed for the Pulseaudio 17 release.

  See the following merge request for the following trivial one-liner
  patch that would need to be backported to Ubuntu's current
  implementation:

  
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/745/diffs

  I hoped that 

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2056079] Re: Serious playback timing problems affecting GStreamer and other pulseaudio and pipewire audio clients

2024-03-08 Thread Mario Kleiner
Technically this bug belongs to the pulseaudio package in Ubuntu, not
pipewire, but the bug tracker does not let me file a bug against
pulseaudio.

** Tags added: pipewire pulseaudio

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Title:
  Serious playback timing problems affecting GStreamer and other
  pulseaudio and pipewire audio clients

Status in gst-plugins-good:
  New
Status in PipeWire:
  Fix Released
Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This is a request for a backport of an existing bug fix, present in
  the recent Pulseaudio version 17 release, to the outdated Pulseaudio
  16 releases in jammy - noble.

  Affects: Ubuntu 22.04.0 LTS and all later versions.

  The fix fixes an annoying start of playback timing bug that affects my
  own software package octave-psychtoolbox-3 (part of Ubuntu universe),
  see
  
https://github.com/Psychtoolbox-3/Psychtoolbox-3/issues/814#issuecomment-1723827374
  which uses GStreamer for video and audio playback. Psychtoolbox is a
  very popular toolkit for neuroscience and related medical research,
  with Ubuntu as the recommended target distribution. It requires high
  reliability in audio and video presentation timing, so the bug
  described in the various links below is serious to our users.

  The bug also in the same way affects other media applications in
  Ubuntu which play back audio via the default (auto-plugged)
  pulseaudiosink GStreamer plugin. See GStreamer bug report
  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/issues/1735). The
  GStreamer bug turned out to be a pulseaudio client library bug (in
  libpulse.so.0).

  Any native pulseaudio client is affected, even if pipewire is used as
  desktop sound server in recent Ubuntu releases, given that many audio
  applications still access pipewire via its pulseaudio frontend
  (package pipewire-pulse). See pipewire bug
  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/3399

  The bug in libpulse.so.0, reported against Pulseaudio 16 in
  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues/1383 has
  been fixed for the Pulseaudio 17 release.

  See the following merge request for the following trivial one-liner
  patch that would need to be backported to Ubuntu's current
  implementation:

  
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/745/diffs

  I hoped that Pulseaudio 17 would be included in Debian in time for
  integration into Ubuntu 24.04-LTS, but apparently not much maintenance
  of pulseaudio is happening on the Debian side at the moment.

  Given that this bug affects all Ubuntu versions since Ubuntu
  22.04-LTS, I'd ask kindly for a backport, ideally for Pulseaudio
  15.99.1 in 22.04-LTS and Pulseaudio 16.1 in upcoming 24.04-LTS, but at
  least for the upcoming 24.04-LTS.

  Alternatively it would have been great to get Pulseaudio upgraded to
  version 17 for upcoming Ubuntu 22.04-LTS to fix many more bugs, but
  apparently that is too late now, according to
  https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+question/709476

  Thanks,
  -mario

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2056079] [NEW] Serious playback timing problems affecting GStreamer and other pulseaudio and pipewire audio clients

2024-03-04 Thread Mario Kleiner
Public bug reported:

This is a request for a backport of an existing bug fix, present in the
recent Pulseaudio version 17 release, to the outdated Pulseaudio 16
releases in jammy - noble.

Affects: Ubuntu 22.04.0 LTS and all later versions.

The fix fixes an annoying start of playback timing bug that affects my
own software package octave-psychtoolbox-3 (part of Ubuntu universe),
see
https://github.com/Psychtoolbox-3/Psychtoolbox-3/issues/814#issuecomment-1723827374
which uses GStreamer for video and audio playback. Psychtoolbox is a
very popular toolkit for neuroscience and related medical research, with
Ubuntu as the recommended target distribution. It requires high
reliability in audio and video presentation timing, so the bug described
in the various links below is serious to our users.

The bug also in the same way affects other media applications in Ubuntu
which play back audio via the default (auto-plugged) pulseaudiosink
GStreamer plugin. See GStreamer bug report
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/issues/1735). The
GStreamer bug turned out to be a pulseaudio client library bug (in
libpulse.so.0).

Any native pulseaudio client is affected, even if pipewire is used as
desktop sound server in recent Ubuntu releases, given that many audio
applications still access pipewire via its pulseaudio frontend (package
pipewire-pulse). See pipewire bug
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/3399

The bug in libpulse.so.0, reported against Pulseaudio 16 in
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues/1383 has
been fixed for the Pulseaudio 17 release.

See the following merge request for the following trivial one-liner
patch that would need to be backported to Ubuntu's current
implementation:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/745/diffs

I hoped that Pulseaudio 17 would be included in Debian in time for
integration into Ubuntu 24.04-LTS, but apparently not much maintenance
of pulseaudio is happening on the Debian side at the moment.

Given that this bug affects all Ubuntu versions since Ubuntu 22.04-LTS,
I'd ask kindly for a backport, ideally for Pulseaudio 15.99.1 in
22.04-LTS and Pulseaudio 16.1 in upcoming 24.04-LTS, but at least for
the upcoming 24.04-LTS.

Alternatively it would have been great to get Pulseaudio upgraded to
version 17 for upcoming Ubuntu 22.04-LTS to fix many more bugs, but
apparently that is too late now, according to
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+question/709476

Thanks,
-mario

** Affects: gst-plugins-good
 Importance: Unknown
 Status: Unknown

** Affects: pipewire
 Importance: Unknown
 Status: Unknown

** Affects: pulseaudio (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

** Bug watch added: gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/issues #1735
   https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/issues/1735

** Also affects: gst-plugins-good via
   https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/issues/1735
   Importance: Unknown
   Status: Unknown

** Bug watch added: gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues #3399
   https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/3399

** Also affects: pipewire via
   https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/3399
   Importance: Unknown
   Status: Unknown

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Title:
  Serious playback timing problems affecting GStreamer and other
  pulseaudio and pipewire audio clients

Status in gst-plugins-good:
  Unknown
Status in PipeWire:
  Unknown
Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This is a request for a backport of an existing bug fix, present in
  the recent Pulseaudio version 17 release, to the outdated Pulseaudio
  16 releases in jammy - noble.

  Affects: Ubuntu 22.04.0 LTS and all later versions.

  The fix fixes an annoying start of playback timing bug that affects my
  own software package octave-psychtoolbox-3 (part of Ubuntu universe),
  see
  
https://github.com/Psychtoolbox-3/Psychtoolbox-3/issues/814#issuecomment-1723827374
  which uses GStreamer for video and audio playback. Psychtoolbox is a
  very popular toolkit for neuroscience and related medical research,
  with Ubuntu as the recommended target distribution. It requires high
  reliability in audio and video presentation timing, so the bug
  described in the various links below is serious to our users.

  The bug also in the same way affects other media applications in
  Ubuntu which play back audio via the default (auto-plugged)
  pulseaudiosink GStreamer plugin. See GStreamer bug report
  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/issues/1735). The
  GStreamer bug turned out to be a pulseaudio client library bug (in
  libpulse.so.0).

  Any native pulseaudio client is affected, even 

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1958673] [NEW] SRU Request for upgrade to X-Server 1.20.14 in focal/20.04-LTS

2022-01-21 Thread Mario Kleiner
Public bug reported:

I was asked by one of your X-Server maintainers (Timo) to file a bug
report here to request an upgrade to the current X-Server 1.20.14 for
focal / Ubuntu 20.04-LTS from X-Server 1.20.13. I think this is called a
SRU?

The 1.20.14 version contains patches to fix some recent CVE's which are
already in your 1.20.13 server, and additionally two patches from
myself, cfe. the following merge request for the backport:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/778

Therefore an upgrade to 1.20.14 would add my two patches from that merge
request. These are trivial backports from master and X-Server 21.1,
which did not need any adaptation of the patches.

One patch is a bug fix for a bug present in server 1.20 since day one.

The other patch can be considered a regression fix for Ubuntu 20.04-LTS
on hybrid graphics laptops with Intel iGPU + some other dGPU, although
this is not a regression in the X-Server itself, but how the video
driver selection by current Ubuntu interacts with the server. See
explanation below why i consider it a regression fix.

One patch fixes a bug: "Fix RandR leasing for more than 1 simultaneously
active lease."

The bug is a trivial code bug, which was there since RandR leasing was
introduced into the 1.20 server by Keith Packard. Keith has reviewed my
bug description and fix and agreed that it is indeed a bug and that my
fix is correct. See the following merge request for the master branch
with Keith's R-b in the discussion:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/767

The bug triggers whenever more than one RandR output gets leased out
simultaneously during a session. It doesn't matter if multiple outputs
get leased to a single client application, or if multiple separate
client applications each lease out one output, or any mix of these.

Only the very last output leased in a session can be released back to
the server by the corresponding client (voluntarily or due to client
exit, crash etc.). All other previously leased out outputs by the same
or other clients will be completely dead and unusable until the
X-Session is terminated and the X-Server restarted. So this can be seen
as a denial of service bug.

Typically affected applications would be Vulkan applications using the
direct display extension, e.g., the octave-psychtoolbox-3 package in
Ubuntu for scientific/medical research, or high end video games which
may use this functionality, and probably most prominently VR
applications built with SteamVR or the OpenXR Monado runtime and VR
compositor.

It has been tested extensively by myself on single X-Screen and dual
X-Screen setups with 1, 2 and three displays, leasing out 1, 2 or 3
outputs.


The second patch is "modesetting: Allow Present flips with mismatched stride on 
atomic drivers."

It applies to the xorg-video-modesetting ddx.

It does not fix a bug in the strict sense, but it does improve the
quality and performance of unredirected fullscreen applications like
video games or scientific software like octave-psychtoolbox-3 under
PRIME render offload in a way that turns them from "technically correct
behavior, but unusable in practice" to "good". The patch is based on a
tip by Michel Daenzer from AMD. See the following original merge request
for X-Server master for details:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/740

On modern kernels and atomic modesetting drivers, the patch allows the
modesetting-ddx to use page flipping for fullscreen applications even if
the Pixmap stride between the display gpu (iGPU, e.g., Intel, AMD) and
the render offload gpu (e.g., AMD, NVidia) is mismatched, as atomic
modesetting drivers can easily handle that.

Without the patch, on such mismatched stride configurations, rejecting
the pageflip, normally the X-Server and modesetting-ddx would fall back
to a fullscreen copy swap, executed via glamor and therefore Mesa as a
framebuffer copy from application backbuffer to system/X-Server
frontbuffer. This increases required memory bandwidth and thereby
reduces cpu and gpu performance, increases latency and the potential for
skipped frames, e.g., for OpenGL and Vulkan applications, and makes
presentation timestamps unreliable, which is especially bad for
scientific applications like the octave-psychtoolbox-3 package.

More importantly for the general case, it causes massive visual tearing
and display artifacts. The current implementation of the X-Servers
DRI3/Present backend and glamor + Mesa's does not use hardware
synchronization to vertical blank (vsync) for such "copy swaps", only
software sync, which is prone to random X-Server scheduling and
processing latency between start of vblank and submission of the copy
command to Mesa. Additionally Mesa submits the hardware copy commands to
the regular 3D engine command stream, so further random delays are added
by any other running GUI application, stalling the "copy command hw
packet" behind other unrelated 2D or 3D 

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1674304] Re: PRIME synchronization not working with xserver-1.19.x

2017-03-29 Thread Mario Kleiner
I can't see anything obviously wrong with your kernel output. It seems
as if the nvidia_modeset driver has loaded. I assume xrandr --verbose
output also reports PRIME sync: 0?

However, the NVidia forum has some reports by people with similar
problems, hinting at a potential incompatibility of the 375.39 NVidia
driver with at Linux 4.10 from the Ubuntu 17.04 beta. Maybe try with a
4.8 kernel?

See

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/957814/linux/prime-and-prime-
synchronization/10

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  PRIME synchronization not working with xserver-1.19.x

Status in nvidia-prime package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  xserver-1.19.x is being proposed for 17.04, currently available in test ppa
  https://launchpad.net/~canonical-x/+archive/ubuntu/x-staging
  FFe - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1671799

  On 2 separate Optimus laptops there is no sign of it actually working, 
tearing while using nvidia drivers (375.x) is rampart.
  Testing with both current  4.10.0-13 & previous 4.9.0-11 kernels.

  Shows this in kern.log so support is enabled

  Mar 19 08:18:47 doug-Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y510P kernel: [1.746443] [drm] 
Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
  Mar 19 08:18:47 doug-Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y510P kernel: [1.746444] [drm] Driver 
supports precise vblank timestamp

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
  Package: nvidia-prime 0.8.4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-13.15-generic 4.10.1
  Uname: Linux 4.10.0-13-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7
  Date: Mon Mar 20 07:53:12 2017
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-03-15 (4 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Alpha amd64 (20170311)
  SourcePackage: nvidia-prime
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1674304] Re: PRIME synchronization not working with xserver-1.19.x

2017-03-27 Thread Mario Kleiner
Is the nvidia-drm module loaded and its drm modesetting enabled?

E.g., via kernel cmdline option nvidia_drm.modeset=1
cat /sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modeset should be 1 or "Y"

I think that isn't needed for PRIME outputs, but it is needed for the
new PRIME sync to work, so maybe not yet part of the nvidia-prime
package/setup.

Downside is that multi-gpu SLI wouldn't work anymore, but then i assume
there aren't any Optimus laptops with two discrete NVidia gpu's, so
that's a non-issue.

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Status in nvidia-prime package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  xserver-1.19.x is being proposed for 17.04, currently available in test ppa
  https://launchpad.net/~canonical-x/+archive/ubuntu/x-staging
  FFe - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1671799

  On 2 separate Optimus laptops there is no sign of it actually working, 
tearing while using nvidia drivers (375.x) is rampart.
  Testing with both current  4.10.0-13 & previous 4.9.0-11 kernels.

  Shows this in kern.log so support is enabled

  Mar 19 08:18:47 doug-Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y510P kernel: [1.746443] [drm] 
Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
  Mar 19 08:18:47 doug-Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y510P kernel: [1.746444] [drm] Driver 
supports precise vblank timestamp

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
  Package: nvidia-prime 0.8.4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-13.15-generic 4.10.1
  Uname: Linux 4.10.0-13-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7
  Date: Mon Mar 20 07:53:12 2017
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-03-15 (4 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Alpha amd64 (20170311)
  SourcePackage: nvidia-prime
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1237718] [NEW] [arrandale] GPU lockup IPEHR: 0xacfbf37f

2013-10-09 Thread Mario Kleiner
Public bug reported:

This came up as System problem detected after a cold reboot. However,
this is a hybrid graphics mbp which only uses the discrete nvidia gpu
with nouveau. The intel card is inaccessible. I played around with
trying to get the intel working via vgaswitcheroo, to no success - it
ended with a black screen (maybe also gpu hang?) Strangely that was
multiple reboots ago, not sure why it is reported now.

However, nouveau is also unreliable since the upgrade to 13.10,
reporting frequent random gpu lockups after working perfectly fine for
hours. Maybe the bug reporter gets confused.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.903-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.18-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-11-lowlatency x86_64
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:
 
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Chipset: arrandale
CompizPlugins: No value set for 
`/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
Date: Mon Oct  7 20:05:55 2013
DistUpgraded: 2013-10-06 06:04:30,466 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: saucy
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 backfire, 0.84-2, 3.11.0-11-generic, x86_64: installed
 backfire, 0.84-2, 3.8.0-32-generic, x86_64: installed
DuplicateSignature: [arrandale] GPU lockup  IPEHR: 0xacfbf37f Ubuntu 13.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/apport/apport-gpu-error-intel.py
GpuHangFrequency: Several times a day
GpuHangReproducibility: Seems to happen randomly
GpuHangStarted: Immediately after installing this version of Ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 NVIDIA Corporation GT216M [GeForce GT 330M] [10de:0a29] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 
[VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Apple Inc. Device [106b:00c7]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-04-23 (534 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin - Beta amd64+mac 
(20120421)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.3
MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBookPro6,2
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/share/apport/apport-gpu-error-intel.py
ProcEnviron:
 
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-12-generic 
root=UUID=74bd9b8e-bd79-4987-b628-9e5156b7bc46 ro 
crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu5
 libdrm2  2.4.46-1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.903-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-intel
Title: [arrandale] GPU lockup  IPEHR: 0xacfbf37f
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-06 (3 days ago)
UserGroups:
 
dmi.bios.date: 12/09/11
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MBP61.88Z.0057.B0F.1112091028
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag#
dmi.board.name: Mac-F22586C8
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.board.version: MacBookPro6,2
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F22586C8
dmi.modalias: 
dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMBP61.88Z.0057.B0F.1112091028:bd12/09/11:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro6,2:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F22586C8:rvrMacBookPro6,2:cvnAppleInc.:ct10:cvrMac-F22586C8:
dmi.product.name: MacBookPro6,2
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.10+13.10.20131004-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.46-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.2.1-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.2.1-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.14.3-3ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu3.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.2.0-0ubuntu10
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.903-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.9-2ubuntu1
xserver.bootTime: Thu Oct 10 01:11:49 2013
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:
 Failed to load module nvidia (module does not exist, 0)
 Failed to load module nvidia (module does not exist, 0)
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.14.3-3ubuntu1
xserver.video_driver: nouveau

** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-crash compiz-0.9 freeze saucy ubuntu

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1237718

Title:
  [arrandale] GPU lockup  IPEHR: 0xacfbf37f

Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This came up as System problem detected after a cold reboot.
  However, this is a hybrid graphics mbp which only uses the discrete
  nvidia gpu with nouveau. The intel card is inaccessible. I played
  around with trying to get the intel working via vgaswitcheroo, to no
  success - it ended with a black screen (maybe