Control: severity 770130 important On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 at 18:15:48 -0800, Eric Shattow wrote: > Nov 18 17:57:51 boss kernel: [drm:i8xx_irq_handler] *ERROR* pipe A underrun ... > Nov 18 17:57:53 boss gnome-session[7213]: (gnome-shell:7314): Cogl-ERROR **: > Failed to create texture 2d due to size/format constraints
After discussion with jcristau I'm downgrading this from serious to important. It is clearly a bug, but it's a bug that as far as I can see only manifests on hardware around 12 years old, which I think we have to admit is no longer a primary target for Debian's default desktop. Something other than GNOME 3 (XFCE? LXDE?) might be a better choice, although I'm not sure how well hardware of that vintage will cope with modern web browsers etc. either. If there is ever a fix for this, I suspect it is most likely to take the form of either gnome-shell or Mesa refusing to try to do GL rendering on hardware that only supports power-of-two texture sizes, and either showing an error or falling back to llvmpipe (software) rendering (which seems unlikely to have reasonable performance on hardware of this age either). S