Bug#438736: intel driver produces kernel crash in a variety of situations

2007-08-20 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 12:21:12AM +0200, Cesare Leonardi wrote: Robert Millan wrote: I've recently upgraded my hardware (motherboard + cpu + ram) and am now getting Linux crashes in a variety of situations. I've detected them when any of the following conditions are met: - When starting

Bug#438736: intel driver produces kernel crash in a variety of situations

2007-08-20 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 08:24:18AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: In the meanwhile try to use the generic vesa driver to see if the crashes still happens. If they will not occur anymore, you can try with the intel driver from unstable or experimental. Btw, tried the vesa driver as you

Bug#438736: intel driver produces kernel crash in a variety of situations

2007-08-20 Thread Cesare Leonardi
Robert Millan wrote: Well, since X is a userland process, I wouldn't expect it to be able to crash the kernel, even if it plays with /dev/agpgart in a bad way. It can even be a security issue. I'm not a X expert but the server contains many drivers that interact with the graphics hardware, i

Bug#438736: intel driver produces kernel crash in a variety of situations

2007-08-19 Thread Robert Millan
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64 Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch1 Severity: important I've recently upgraded my hardware (motherboard + cpu + ram) and am now getting Linux crashes in a variety of situations. I've detected them when any of the following conditions are met: - When starting a

Bug#438736: intel driver produces kernel crash in a variety of situations

2007-08-19 Thread Cesare Leonardi
Robert Millan wrote: I've recently upgraded my hardware (motherboard + cpu + ram) and am now getting Linux crashes in a variety of situations. I've detected them when any of the following conditions are met: - When starting a second X session. - When time goes backwards (e.g. due to