[Nix-dev] x.org intel driver

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 04:54:37PM +0000, Sander van der Burg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently, I'm having some trouble with the Intel display driver on my machine, such as lockups, hangs and screen corruption. I've solved this issue partially by upgrading the driver to the latest patchlevel release, i.e. from  2.20.10 to 2.20.19.
> 
> After upgrading, it does not seems to cause any crashes, but I still have some minor screen corruptions now and then.
> 
> Any objects in committing this upgrade? It does not solve all my problems, but at least it's not letting my machine crash anymore.

Since some time ago (since some kernel versions ago), from time to time I see
that "the gpu locked" in X logs. I've to reboot the computer in that case, if
I want 'xv' working again. But I've never seen screen corruptions or lockups.

I don't use glx often, no idea about it.