When I run a game (uplink :D) suddently X crashes brutally without an error, nor writing a log. Furthermore it seems unable to restart itself. The only thing to do is an hard reboot. I can't think about a problem neither find a way to fix this (maybe in xorg.conf). If I upgrade video-intel driver to any other unstable version (2.2.1, 2.3.2..) I get uplink working but the card seems becoming slower and slower (glxgears isn't a benchmarking tester but with the stable driver I get around 1500 fps, with 2.2.1 1500 fps (but it gives me a lot of error and the gears aren't rotating), with 2.3.1 500 fps (same issues) and so on.. This isn't about uplink, it did happen also with another physic game (of which I can't remember the name) I think there's something wrong with OpenGL (?). Don't know.. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Bootup computer 2. Start uplink 3. xorg-server crashes. Kaboom! Expected Results: Uplink shows? :P See xorg.conf and log attached and.. I don't know what else might be helpful
Created attachment 177802 [details] xorg configuration file
Created attachment 177804 [details] xorg logs
elbryan@whitebox ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T7300_@_2.00GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.4.6-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="it_IT.UTF-8" LC_ALL="it_IT.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="it en" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="/ X acl acpi alsa berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal hddtemp iconv imap ipod ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kerberos libnotify lm_sensors mad midi mikmod mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis win32codecs x86 xml xorg xulrunner xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Created attachment 177805 [details] xorg configuration file (edited) Macbook 3,1 (santarosa) with GMA x3100 graphic card
This might come as a disappointment, but the only way out of this is to upgrade your whole X stack to ~x86. Older Intel drivers have numerous issues on newer hardware (such as yours), but only updating the driver to ~x86 will bring even more bugs. As for fixing xorg-server 1.3, that won't happen, it's just too old and too hard to work with. Thanks for understanding
(In reply to comment #5) > This might come as a disappointment, but the only way out of this is to upgrade > your whole X stack to ~x86. Older Intel drivers have numerous issues on newer > hardware (such as yours), but only updating the driver to ~x86 will bring even > more bugs. > > As for fixing xorg-server 1.3, that won't happen, it's just too old and too > hard to work with. > > Thanks for understanding > Yea I get it. This might be "off topic" but if I upgrade to ~x86 (xorg-server-1.5.3, xf86-video-intel-2.5.1-r1) I can almost reach 60 fps on glxgears. The game starts, of course, but even at 640x480 it's unusable (and we are talking about a game that is text based). Have I to fill another bug ticket for that version of drivers? Moreover with ~x86, xorg-server crashes if I don't force it to use XAA acceleration instead of the default one (EXA?!). I really don't know what to do. Hints? Thanks
(In reply to comment #6) > I really don't know what to do. Hints? > Thanks > You can see a candidate stable list in bug 251832 . If you still have problems with newer X and intel driver, maybe you should open a separate bug report for the problem. If you want also check more, you could also try with 2.6.2 intel driver version if 2.6.1 still doesn't work (it's still hardmasked for testing) and, if still failling, maybe a sending a bug to upstream (bugs.freedesktop.org) would be useful Good luck!
xorg-server 1.5.3 and xf86-video-intel 2.6.3 have both been stable for a while, let's consider this bug fixed. If this is not the case, please don't hesitate to reopen this bug or to open another one if the issue is different. Thanks
