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[Geir Ove Myhr <gomyhr@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Anyway, for now, are the three freezetestN kernels still in need of
> testing, or should I move on to the drivers in Brian Rogers' PPA?
> (Presumably with the latest mainline kernel?)

The kernels themselves do not need any more testing. We know now that
the change from freezetst8 to freezetest9 triggers the freezes for a
lot of people. You may still want to test them, since if you _don't_
see this behaviour, you are experiencing  a different underlying bug
from most other people, and we will have to make sure to treat it like
that.

You may follow Brian Rogers' PPA (not sure with which kernel, but at
least Karmic or newer), but there seems to be plenty of people
following that already. Once they narrow it down to a commit, there
should be two versions ready for testing (similar to the kernels
freezetest8 and freezetest9).

While Brian is homing in on the bad commit in libdrm or
xserver-xorg-video-intel, i have somewhat switched strategy and now
report any freeze bugs upstream once we have a batchbuffer dump from
Lucid with xorg-edgers and a new mainline kernel. That way upstream
will have several bug reports with the newest versions of the driver
stack. It seems that it is somewhat random if a batchbuffer dump is
able to catch the problematic code, so this should have some value
beyond making the problem more visible.

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[i845G] Display freezes (except for mouse pointer) without warning
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