X still freezes

Ben Gamari (FOSS) bgamari at gmail.com
Wed Nov 12 02:09:04 UTC 2008


Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I thought that one of the benefits of the kernel-based mode setting and
> reworked VT code in F10 was that one could still use Ctrl-Alt-<Fn> to
> escape even if X froze up. I guess I must have misunderstood because I
> just managed to freeze X completely (some combination of showing a flash
> video and switching desktops, probably hard to reproduce) and had to
> reset the machine to recover. This is with an Intel 965 video chipset.
>
> poc
>
>   
This is because KMS hasn't been merged into F10 for the intel chips. The
patches didn't make the merge date.

On this note, are their plans to merge intel KMS into F10 at all (soon
after release?) or will this be an F11 item?

Thanks,
- Ben




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