Hi openSUSE community,
I have a strange problem with X under openSUSE 11.2. After starting KDE 4.x or Gnome, the Xorg system freezes after 5-15 minutes. ..... I have an Intel 855GM Integrated Graphics Device on board. .....
Sounds similar to Bug #546076. Workaround for now would be to use fbdev driver ("sax2 -a -r -m 0=fbdev"). Or try latest X packages from our buildservice (X11:XOrg) + Kernel 2.6.32 (KOTD=kernel of the day), which includes latest available intel driver using KMS (kernel mode setting). Not sure whether
Hi Stefan, thanks for your response. In deed there are a lot of similar bug reports about the integrated Intel 8xx graphic chips, see e.g. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24789 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/4478... I have tried the fbdev driver, and that seems to work (of course no proper video playback). There are also some reports about "acpi=off", which should "fix" the freeze problem. But with "acpi=off" my system becomes very slow and unusable. Another suggested workaround was just "pci=noacpi". I have tried that with the intel driver and the X11 system was still running after 30 minutes, but I need to test for longer periods to be sure. Hopefully the Intel driver guys will fix that issue soon, but I doubt that a bit, since these issues are lasting so long now. The hardware is quite outdated, even though a lot of people still run 8xx graphics (Notebooks, Barebones). BTW: The Ubuntu guys have also these problems with KMS enabled. They suggest to disable KMS with "nomodeset". So, using KMS with a never kernel might not be the solution. It seems that a fallback to older kernels is the best. Cheers Ralf this
helps though.
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