From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 3 18:30:21 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91F21106566C for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2008 18:30:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scf@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.farley.org (farley.org [67.64.95.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B5A18FC19 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2008 18:30:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scf@FreeBSD.org) Received: from thor.farley.org (HPooka@thor.farley.org [192.168.1.5]) by mail.farley.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id m53IUDHR052142; Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:30:13 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from scf@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:30:13 -0500 (CDT) From: "Sean C. Farley" To: Michiel Boland In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (BSF 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on mail.farley.org Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: hard hang with intel video driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:30:21 -0000 On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Michiel Boland wrote: > Hi. I'm not having much luck with the 'intel' video driver on i386 > -CURRENT. Whereas it would panic the box earlier when starting X (see > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2008-February/082955.html), > it now just completely hangs the machine. > > No DDB, nothing. > > FWIW hardware is a dell optiplex 756. Kernel is GENERIC with one added > option (BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER). Graphics card is reported as 'Q963/Q965 > Integrated Graphics Controller' by pciconf. > > The i810 driver works fine, but from what I gather from the > xorg-drivers port, this driver is being phased out in favour of the > intel driver. Is that correct? If so, then some work is needed > somewhere. I had/have similar problems with the Intel video driver with 7-STABLE. Newer versions of the driver tend to fair better. v2.3.0 of the driver works the best for me. OpenGL applications may lock (xscreensaver at least does) from time to time, yet the system is still accessible remotely. Amusingly, the xscreensaver "hack" only needs a SIGCONT to restore access to the system. v2.3.1 will consistently lock the system. To install it, I just updated the port version to 2.3.0 and ran make makesum before installing. No other changes to the port are necessary. Obviously, this is not a true fix, but it does help. Sean -- scf@FreeBSD.org