[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28-2

[pyther]

On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:00:08 +0100, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net>
wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 16:54 -0500, pyther wrote:
>> I just wanted to let the devs know that 2.4.x causes Xorg to crash
>> with
>> Kernel 2.6.28, so some users might have issues. It doesn't matter to
>> me
>> either way just wanted to let that information be known.
> 
> No problems here,
> 
> 945GM
> G33
> Q35
> 
> All work fine with xf86-video-intel 2.4.3. Are you using some special
> option in xorg.conf that triggers these crashes?

No I am not. Using the latest libdrm and xf86-intel-video seems to prevent
the crashes for me.
See this post on the forum: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=60570
*Post #11 reports that disabling dri prevents the freezes
*OP claimed problem was solved with the kernel upgrade (2.6.28)

>From what I experienced the crashes were less frequent with 2.6.28, but
they were still prevalent.