Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 20:15:47 GMT From: Vedant Kumar <vminch@gmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/134244: "intel" driver for Xorg is very broken Message-ID: <200905052015.n45KFl8l080790@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200905052020.n45KK1vu022830@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 134244 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: "intel" driver for Xorg is very broken >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-i386 >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue May 05 20:20:01 UTC 2009 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Vedant Kumar >Release: 8.0 Current >Organization: none >Environment: FreeBsd vk.192.168.1.1 8.0-CURRENT-200902 FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT-200902 #0: Sat Feb 21 05:58:23 UTC 2009 root@almedia.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC >Description: The "intel" driver for Xorg has a history of bad performance, but recently it has been completely broken. Here is a summary of the issue: * when issuing "startx" on machines with an intel graphics card, Xorg briefly launches and then immediately freezes the system (tested with and without a xorg.conf file) This issue has been plaguing Linux distributions for a while, though I don't know about the status of this in the -RELEASE FreeBSD (7.2). I submitted the original bug report on this on the ArchLinux bug tracker, and we have determined that it is not a problem with the Linux kernel (obvious: it is reproducible on FreeBSD) or with other hardware. Our fix was to downgrade the driver to the last working version - and everything is back to normal. >How-To-Repeat: Issue "startx" on a machine with an intel graphics card, on FreeBSD 8.0 CURRENT. >Fix: I think that the best solution is the ArchLinux solution. They created two packages; xf86-video-intel and xf86-video-intel-legacy. The idea is that xf86-video-intel will constantly be upgraded as patches come in, but until it is fixed, users can be happy with xf86-video-intel-legacy (which will never change). >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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