[arch-general] intel gpu hang

[u34 at net9.ga]

Ralf Mardorf via arch-general <arch-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:

> 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"

Are you sure the cause is not phisycal memory failure?

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u34