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Re: [Bug 631546] Re: [i855] System crashes when playing a video

 

I'm quite busy at these days, but I will try when I have chance.
Thanks!

2011/4/28 Bryce Harrington <631546@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Hi, sorry you had trouble getting Ubuntu working on your 8xx chip.  I'd
> like to have you re-test against natty and if it's still not working
> right, please file a bug upstream at bugs.freedesktop.org against Xorg /
> Intel.
>
> The intel driver seems to not get tested well against the 8xx chips and
> we've seen lots of regressions and mis-features.  Unfortunately the
> driver code seems to be rather fragile as well, so we've found we cannot
> effectively patch and maintain the driver at the distro level, and thus
> are no longer providing development support, nor will be backporting
> fixes to older Ubuntu releases.  You may still be able to get some
> technical support from places like http://askubuntu.com and similar to
> work around problems.
>
> ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Invalid
>
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> Title:
>  [i855] System crashes when playing a video
>
> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” package in Ubuntu:
>   Invalid
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel
>
>   Ubuntu version: 10.04.1
>   package version: 2:2.9.1-3ubuntu5
>   I have to boot with the option i915.modeset=1 (Workaround A in
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Lucidi8xxFreezes) or I get the system
> locked up. However, I get this error message: acer-wmi: No or unsupported
> WMI interface, unable to load. Although, everything seems to work fine.
>    When I try to play a video system crashes inmediatly. Screen alternates
> between console mode and blank. But the console appears only for a blink, so
> I'm not able to read what it displays.
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
>  Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.1-3ubuntu5
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.41-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
>  Architecture: i386
>  CurrentDmesg:
>   [   36.645155] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
>   [  248.255589] lib80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
>  Date: Mon Sep  6 14:46:21 2010
>  DkmsStatus: Error: [Errno 2] No existe el fichero ó directorio
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
>  Lsusb:
>   Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
>   Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
>   Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
>   Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
>  MachineType: Acer TravelMate 4000
>  PccardctlIdent:
>   Socket 0:
>     no product info available
>  PccardctlStatus:
>   Socket 0:
>     no card
>  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic
> root=UUID=4b7c2666-d80f-4af0-88a2-eed9fa0d933e ro quiet splash
> i915.modeset=1
>  ProcEnviron:
>   LANG=es_ES.utf8
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-intel
>  dmi.bios.date: 08/06/2004
>  dmi.bios.vendor: ACER
>  dmi.bios.version: 3A06
>  dmi.board.name: TravelMate 4000
>  dmi.board.vendor: Acer
>  dmi.board.version: Rev 1.0
>  dmi.chassis.type: 10
>  dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
>  dmi.chassis.version: Rev.1
>  dmi.modalias:
> dmi:bvnACER:bvr3A06:bd08/06/2004:svnAcer:pnTravelMate4000:pvrRev1:rvnAcer:rnTravelMate4000:rvrRev1.0:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrRev.1:
>  dmi.product.name: TravelMate 4000
>  dmi.product.version: Rev 1
>  dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
>  system:
>   distro:             Ubuntu
>   codename:           lucid
>   architecture:       i686
>   kernel:             2.6.32-24-generic
>
>   [lspci]
>  00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM
> Integrated Graphics Device [8086:3582] (rev 02)
>        Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0064]
>
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Title:
  [i855] System crashes when playing a video


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