[arch-general] intel gpu hang

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 10:38:31 +0100, Uwe Sauter via arch-general wrote:
>Depending on the CPU with integrated GPU you might experience hangs.
>
>This article as some background info:
>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Haswell-GT1-Busted

Thank you for this link.

I don't experience hangs during startup or graphics
corruption/artifacts. Even after starting a window manager session it
works for a while, but suddenly using some apps does cause issues. My
first guess was a broken SSD, but when using older kernels everything
is ok again. When I migrated from AMD machines to my current Intel
machines, I was happy to get rid of almost all, if not all annoyances
and now the Intel machine became a PITA, too. Another perhaps
unrelated issue is that what ever kernel I'm using, some apps tend to
crash, mostly GTK2 apps, using GTK3 branches usually fixes the issue.
It's something just a few users experience, but not related to the used
Linux distro. However, it's also obviously a graphics issue. I don't
have the error message at hand. Btw. I'm writing this email with
the GTK3 branch of Claws.

https://www.cpu-world.com/info/Intel/GPU-model-number.html
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/80800/intel-celeron-processor-g1840-2m-cache-2-80-ghz.html

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ hwinfo --cpu | grep Model | sort -u
  Model: 6.60.3 "Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU G1840 @ 2.80GHz"
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ hwinfo --gfx | grep Model
  Model: "Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated
                                              Graphics Controller"