Bug 23739

Summary: blanks the screen in graphics mode "forever" at random moments on intel (i915 driver)
Product: Branch 4.1 Reporter: Ivan Zakharyaschev <imz>
Component: xorg-drv-intelAssignee: Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it <nobody>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: qa-4.1 <qa-4.1>
Severity: critical    
Priority: P3    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: all   
OS: Linux   
Bug Depends on: 23740    
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/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old when this happens none

Description Ivan Zakharyaschev 2010-07-07 20:17:39 MSD
Created attachment 4453 [details]
/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old when this happens

xorg-drv-intel-2.4.3-alt0.M41.1
# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.30-std-def-alt15 #1 SMP Mon Dec 14 08:45:48 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
# lspci | fgrep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
# 

At random moments (often when opening a new page in chromium-browser-6.0.401.0-alt1.r47010), the screen is blanked (more precisely, filled with one color: black, or the blue color of the Chromium's window). One can successfully switch to a linux text console. But this state of the graphics screen stays "forever" until a reboot: restarting X doesn't help.

This happens rather seldom; and is not deterministically reproducible.
Comment 1 Ivan Zakharyaschev 2010-07-07 20:22:10 MSD
I've found some discussions of similar problems:

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/archive/index.php/t-265302.html -- "The screen going blank (well, all one color) on random events, e.g. clicking a menu"

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/399636

I haven't yet tried whether the 2 mentioned workarounds work for me:

1) "pressing Fn+F7 (LCD/CRT toggle)" -- because I haven't yet experienced this once again

2) Option "ForceEnablePipeA" "true"
Comment 2 Valery Inozemtsev 2010-07-07 21:42:48 MSD
моя твоя не понимай
Comment 3 Ivan Zakharyaschev 2010-07-09 11:36:56 MSD
(In reply to comment #1)

> I haven't yet tried whether the 2 mentioned workarounds work for me:
> 
> 1) "pressing Fn+F7 (LCD/CRT toggle)" -- because I haven't yet experienced this
> once again

No, this doesn't help.
Comment 4 Ivan Zakharyaschev 2010-07-12 18:53:10 MSD
*** Bug 20357 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Ivan Zakharyaschev 2010-07-12 19:39:04 MSD
(In reply to comment #0)
> At random moments (often when opening a new page in
> chromium-browser-6.0.401.0-alt1.r47010), the screen is blanked (more 

This also happened during video-conversations in skype.
Comment 6 Ivan Zakharyaschev 2010-07-16 09:16:29 MSD
This also happened on 2.6.32-un-def-alt5 and that xorg-drv-intel-2.4.3-alt0.M41.1 (when working in rxvt-unicode-9.02-alt1). So, I will try upgrading xorg-drv-intel from 5.1.
Comment 7 Michael Shigorin 2014-11-05 20:43:21 MSK
В 4.1/branch исправления не будут вноситься уже технически (заглушена очередь на сборку), поэтому прошу ошибки, актуальные для sisyphus/p7/t7, перевесить на текущие ветки или сизиф.