On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 06:50:58AM +0200, Geir Ove Myhr wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Bryce Harrington <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 04:28:59PM -0400, Greg Bair wrote: > >> Last month, Geir Ove Myhr posted a patch for the Intel driver to fix a > >> freezing issue on i845 chipsets. Bryce Harrington then mentioned adding > >> it to Lucid. > > > > To clarify, IIRC the patch is the upstream "Big Hammer" patch, it's not > > so much a "fix" as a set of tweaks and heuristics. > > Nope, I think the patch in question was the clip solids patch to the > intel DDX driver. That patch does fix some GPU hangs, and for some it > meant that it would take longer for the computer to freeze. But the > cache coherency problem that is the big one right now is not affected > by this. So the clip-solids patch is included in Lucid LTS (and in > xserver-xorg-video-intel from version 2:2.9.1-3ubuntu2 on April 13) > but is unlikely to solve all freeze issues on 845G.
Oh that one, yeah. There were a few minor patches we did pull in that reputedly helped but didn't give a general solution for everyone. Bryce -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
