Hi Petter, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> I ran into this on a freshly installed Thinkpad X40 with todays > Debian/Squeeze. The external VGA connector is connected to a video > projector. I plugged in a USB DVD player, installed libdvdcss2 and > tried to play the DVD using vlc. This caused X to lock up and the > kernel to report a crash. [...] > Before the crash, the VGA output would flicker a lot whenever the > machine was doing anything (like I moved the mouse or installed a > package), and the image would only stand still when I did not move the > mouse. This seem similar to the bug report > <URL: http://bugs.debian.org/570696 >, but I am not sure if it is the > same one. > > [250593.916039] [drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer > elapsed... GPU hung Thanks. I like to imagine this was fixed by (kernel or userspace :/) changes in later squeeze point releases. Do you still experience it? [...] > As this is my video playing machine, I'll reinstall it with Lenny soon > to get my DVD player back, but thought it best to report the problem > before I reverted the machine into a working condition. Is there > anything I should test before I do this? Sorry for the slow response. Debian Live might be a good way to test, if this machine is still using Lenny for everyday tasks. Regards, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
