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
