[gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver

[walt]

On 11/05/2009 01:17 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote:
> ...
> I also note something eerily similar in my netbook which has only a
> builtin intel vid chip. In this case X starts fine but then, after a
> period of time, could be as short as 15 mins or as long as 8 hours the
> desktop goes blank, ususally black but once grey. I can migrate to the
> first console and turn off theX server but I have to reboot to get
> back to the desktop. Running startx again just leads back to a blank
> screen...

There are definitely bugs in the intel video driver, as posted to the
freedesktop.xorg mailing list:

Release 2.9.1 (2009-10-26)
==========================
We are pleased to announce a maintenance release (2.9.1) of the
xf86-video-intel driver. This release comes one month after 2.9.0 and
consists only of a few, hand-picked bug fixes since that release.

Thanks to everyone for your help in putting together a fine release.

-Carl

PS. If you want to nominate fixes for future 2.9.x releases, please do
so at: http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Intel29Branch

Where to get xf86-video-intel 2.9.1
-----------------------------------
git tag: 2.9.1

http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/xf86-video-intel-2.9.1.tar.bz2
MD5: 8951d0366c16991badb7f9050556f4f3  xf86-video-intel-2.9.1.tar.bz2
SHA1: ca5887df67ec46f27eeeaf8158048d6500333ccf  xf86-video-intel-2.9.1.tar.bz2

http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/xf86-video-intel-2.9.1.tar.gz
MD5: b1926dc68cc10209fc2200729fb6162b  xf86-video-intel-2.9.1.tar.gz
SHA1: a1810874c6bff487232cbea26ec02a45bbe6e9a2  xf86-video-intel-2.9.1.tar.gz

Complete list of fixes in 2.9.1 compared to 2.9.0
-------------------------------------------------
 * Fix corruption and artifacts due to wrong colors in the colormap
   with X server 1.7

 * Fix incorrect rendering, such as missing scrollbar arrows in some
   themes (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24459)

 * Fix black screen when X server is reset
   (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24383)

 * Fix regressions detecting DVI monitors

   http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24255
   http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24282
   http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24458