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System with Intel 945GM freezes randomly

Somebody might say this is a duplicate of this bug here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/Linux/+bug/355155/ but since I
believe the other bug is a mix of at least 3 different bugs I start this
one here *ONLY* for systems with an Intel graphics chip.

With Jaunty

$ lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 9.04
Release:	9.04

my *Gnome* desktop freezes randomly - I have *Compiz* activated. That
did not occur with Intrepid. A *memtest* does not find any problems - it
ran almost for 24 hours. During a freeze my mouse still moves so it's
not a complete system freeze anyway. My laptop is a Lenovo X60s.

The typical situation is (AFAIR) not related to Compiz' scale feature as I wrote in the other bug report before. All I can say for sure is that the last 5 times it happened was while I was watching a video with *gmplayer*. The video has these characteristics:
$ file <that video>
RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 624 x 352, 23.98 fps, video: XviD, audio: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (stereo, 48000 Hz)

At the same time I was surfing these two websites using firefox:
www.spiegel.de
www.amazona.de

$ firefox --version
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2009 mozilla.org

These sites contain flash and I have adobe's flash plug-in installed:
$ dpkg -l | grep adobe
ii  adobe-flashplugin   10.0.22.87-2jaunty1   Adobe Flash Player plugin version 10

While the laptop is frozen I can't
- leave X and switch to a real console (tty1)
- press CAPS or NUM LOCK...
- SSH on that machine

During one of the last freezes I had a camera in grabbing range. I tried
the key combo "alt-sysrq-k". It took about 30s and this happened: Screen
is black with a thick blue stripe on the right side. See here
http://pkqs.net/~cf/small-IMG_1303 . After pressing "alt-sysrq-k"
several times this window appeared: "Ubuntu is running in low graphics
mode" - also saying:

"(EE) intel(0): Failed to set tiling on front buffer: rejected by
kernel".

See here http://pkqs.net/~cf/small-IMG_1304 . Then another window
appears asking what to do. See here http://pkqs.net/~cf/small-IMG_1305 .
I chose "Exit to console login". This put me on tty1 but totally screwed
up - I wasn't able to type something blindly. See here
http://pkqs.net/~cf/small-IMG_1307 . Going back to the console where
gnome was running on showed this here http://pkqs.net/~cf/small-IMG_1308
. After pressing "ctrl-alt-backspace" my computer performed a shut down.


After thinking a little about that line here:

"(EE) intel(0): Failed to set tiling on front buffer: rejected by
kernel"

I remembered that I manually added some proposed lines to my xorg.conf
that I read about in a Howto dealing with that Intel driver performance
loss - see here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/IntelPerformance

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Configured Video Device"
 Option "AccelMethod" "uxa"
 Option "EXAOptimizeMigration" "true"
 Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
 Option "Tiling" "true"
EndSection

I removed the lines dealing with "Tiling" and "MigrationHeuristic" but
this morning I had another freeze.

Some information that I won't attach as files:

$ uname -a
Linux x60s 2.6.28-12-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 1 19:27:06 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

$ dpkg -l | grep xorg | grep ^ii| sed 's/  */?/g' | cut -d "?" -f1,2,3 | sed 's/?/  /g'
ii  python-xkit  0.4.2
ii  xorg  1:7.4~5ubuntu18
ii  xserver-xorg  1:7.4~5ubuntu18
ii  xserver-xorg-core  2:1.6.0-0ubuntu14
ii  xserver-xorg-input-all  1:7.4~5ubuntu18
ii  xserver-xorg-input-evdev  1:2.1.1-1ubuntu4
ii  xserver-xorg-input-kbd  1:1.3.1-2ubuntu1
ii  xserver-xorg-input-mouse  1:1.4.0-1
ii  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics  0.99.3-2ubuntu4
ii  xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse  1:12.5.1-4ubuntu5
ii  xserver-xorg-input-wacom  1:0.8.2.2-0ubuntu2
ii  xserver-xorg-video-amd  2.11.1-1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-apm  1:1.2.1-1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-ark  1:0.7.1-1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-ati  1:6.12.1-0ubuntu2
ii  xserver-xorg-video-chips  1:1.2.1-1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-cirrus  1:1.2.1-3
ii  xserver-xorg-video-dummy  1:0.3.1-1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-fbdev  1:0.4.0-3
ii  xserver-xorg-video-geode  2.11.1-1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-glint  1:1.2.2-1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-i128  1:1.3.1-2ubuntu1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-i740  1:1.2.0-2
ii  xserver-xorg-video-intel  2:2.6.3-0ubuntu9.2
ii  xserver-xorg-video-mach64  6.8.0-3
ii  xserver-xorg-video-mga  1:1.4.9.dfsg-3
ii  xserver-xorg-video-neomagic  1:1.2.2-1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-nv  1:2.1.12-1ubuntu5
ii  xserver-xorg-video-openchrome  1:0.2.903+svn713-1ubuntu1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-r128  6.8.0+git20090201.08d56c88-1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-radeon  1:6.12.1-0ubuntu2
ii  xserver-xorg-video-rendition  1:4.2.0.dfsg.1-2ubuntu1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-s3  1:0.6.1-1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-s3virge  1:1.10.2-1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-savage  1:2.2.1-4ubuntu2
ii  xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion  1:1.7.0-1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-sis  1:0.10.1-1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-sisusb  1:0.9.0-4
ii  xserver-xorg-video-tdfx  1:1.4.0-2
ii  xserver-xorg-video-trident  1:1.3.0-1ubuntu1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-tseng  1:1.2.0-1ubuntu1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-v4l  1:0.2.0-1ubuntu5
ii  xserver-xorg-video-vesa  1:2.0.0-1ubuntu6
ii  xserver-xorg-video-vmware  1:10.16.5-2
ii  xserver-xorg-video-voodoo  1:1.2.0-1ubuntu1

$ lspci 
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
15:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b4)
15:00.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 09)
15:00.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 18)

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


** Tags: compiz flash freeze gnome intel tiling xorg
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System with Intel 945GM freezes
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