I've set up a new machine with Buster (my first foray, my other
machines are still running Stretch). It frequently locks up so
hard that I have to hit the reset button. It seems to happen when
scrolling a Notepad window in Windows XP, which is running under
VirtualBox 6.0.10 r132072.
The machine has an ASUS P5L-MX motherboard and I'm using its onboard
VGA adapter.
I suspect a video driver issue. Can anyone point me to some info
on configuring and troubleshooting such things? Up until now any
machine I've installed Linux on has Just Worked. I've heard of
various gotchas but this is the first time I've been bitten.
Here's the output of a little diagnostic script I put together
based on stuff I cribbed from Stack Exchange:
$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 4.19.0-5-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc
version 8.3.0 (Debian 8.3.0-6)) #1 SMP Debian 4.19.37-5+deb10u2 (2019-08-08)
$ lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics
Controller
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915
$ lsmod | grep "kms\|drm"
drm_kms_helper 200704 1 i915
drm 483328 6 drm_kms_helper,i915
$ find /dev -group video
/dev/fb0
/dev/dri/card0
$ cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-5-amd64
root=UUID=13c0f985-950e-42ec-a1a6-0766ef3c7025 ro quiet
$ find /etc/modprobe.d/
/etc/modprobe.d/
$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/*kms*
cat: '/etc/modprobe.d/*kms*': No such file or directory
$ ls /etc/X11/xorg.conf
ls: cannot access '/etc/X11/xorg.conf': No such file or directory
$ glxinfo | grep -i "vendor\|rendering"
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
Vendor: Intel Open Source Technology Center (0x8086)
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
$ grep LoadModule /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 27.469] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[ 28.044] (II) LoadModule: "intel"
[ 28.228] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
[ 28.313] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
[ 28.346] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
[ 28.440] (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"
[ 28.509] (II) LoadModule: "dri3"
[ 28.509] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
[ 28.509] (II) LoadModule: "present"
[ 32.436] (II) LoadModule: "libinput"
$ egrep -i " connected|card detect|primary dev|Setting driver"
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 28.402] (II) intel(0): Using Kernel Mode Setting driver: i915,
version 1.6.0 20180719
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