I put in a fix for freezes on i965 that's in the release; I wonder if
this has resolved your issue as well?
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[i965] X freezes every ~24hr while scrolling in firefox (EXA/UXA)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/357908
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[i965] X freezes every ~24hr while scrolling in firefox (EXA enabled)
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We have a PPA with some new tools for debugging X freezes:
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-freeze-test
I know how irritating X freezes can be. They're also typically
quite hard to debug, but the information provided by these new
tools should help upstream figure them out.
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel
Was scrolling quickly in firefox on hiveminder.com when X hung. No
compiz or other compositing wm in place.
Attaching gdb backtrace.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Have to retract my previous comments. With 7.4 I get freezes every few
hours. Downgrading to 7.3 seemed to help - over a 5 day period I saw
only 2 freezes (which more closely fits your bug frequency).
Another suggestion has been to set this in xorg.conf:
Option EXAOptimizeMigration off
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Steve, I've reproduced a freeze on i965. It came on within 2-3 hrs of updating
to mesa 7.4.
After downgrading to 7.3, the freeze went away entirely.
In doing an analysis both of all freeze bug reports reported, and a
study of all X and linux changes made within the past few weeks, I
believe
