Thanks, Celejar I didn't know about the bug reports at freedesktop.org. Bug 17713 seems to have nice explanation for the problem in the comments.
It seems to be an issue with the Intel chipset that may be fixed by a later version of the Intel driver. I'm out of my depth on this, so see this bug report for details. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17713 On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 05:37:55PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:55:46 -0500 > Phil Roan <pr...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > I've been getting this error infrequently for some time now. > > Rebooting seems to "fix" it, but I wondered if it was a known issue > > that had a real solution. > > > > My system is an Intel 845 GVSR motherboard, with up to date Debian > > Lenny. The error causes Xorg to fail. The relevant part of > > /var/log/Xorg.0.log is below: > > > > Error in I830WaitLpRing(), timeout for 2 seconds > > I've been plagued in the past by a similar looking issue; fortunately > for me, it hasn't reared its head in a while. Here's the bug report and > thread, though; perhaps you'll find something useful therein: > > http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16262 > > My error logs: > > http://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=16976 > http://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=24050 > > Celejar > -- > mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email > ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- Phil Roan pr...@earthlink.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org