In an up-to-date fresh tribe 4 install, I've seen the "evicting pixmaps" message, but it looks it has no relation with the hangs (my laptop has hanged without this message and I've seen this message without a hang).
However it looks like the following lines are important: (II) intel(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel (II) intel(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xf89c1000 at 0xb7b65000 (EE) intel(0): I830 Vblank Pipe Setup Failed 0 My last hang Xorg.0.log file attached. ** Summary changed: - laptop hangs, last message is "XAA: Evicting pixmaps" + laptop hangs when switching video mode ** Description changed: - When Ubuntu changes video mode (switching to a VC, restarting, + When Ubuntu changes video mode (switching to a VT, restarting, hibernating, suspending, turning off, etc.), sometimes my laptop hangs with a black with some garbage screen. Keyboard doesn't respond (not SysRq, Suspend hotkey, etc.). The only solution is a hard power-off. - This usually happens when compiz has been enabled, and the last message - in Xorg.0.log is "XAA: Evicting pixmaps". + This usually happens when compiz has been enabled, as in gutsy by + default. - I've seen cases where this last message doesn't even get written in the log file when the laptop hangs, and once I've seen more messages written: + Usually the last lines in my Xorg.0.log are something like this: + *** - (II) XAA: Evicting pixmaps - (II) PM Event received: Capability Changed - I830PMEvent: Capability change - (II) PM Event received: Capability Changed - I830PMEvent: Capability change - (II) PM Event received: Capability Changed - I830PMEvent: Capability change - (II) PM Event received: Capability Changed - I830PMEvent: Capability change - (II) PM Event received: Capability Changed - I830PMEvent: Capability change - (II) PM Event received: Capability Changed - I830PMEvent: Capability change - (II) PM Event received: Capability Changed - I830PMEvent: Capability change - Synaptics DeviceOff called (II) intel(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel (II) intel(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xf89c1000 at 0xb7b65000 (EE) intel(0): I830 Vblank Pipe Setup Failed 0 *** I'll provide more info if needed. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Jul 20 01:52:56 2007 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10 Package: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-6ubuntu2 PackageArchitecture: i386 SourcePackage: xorg-server Uname: Linux snifer-laptop 2.6.22-8-generic #1 SMP Thu Jul 12 15:59:45 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux ** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log.old" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8881747/Xorg.0.log.old -- laptop hangs when switching video mode https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/127101 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
