Bug 24680

Summary: running google earth freezes entire system
Product: xorg Reporter: Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins>
Component: Driver/intelAssignee: Gordon Jin <gordon.jin>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: critical    
Priority: medium Keywords: NEEDINFO
Version: 7.4 (2008.09)   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
Attachments:
Description Flags
/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old (from freeze) none

Description Maciej Pilichowski 2009-10-22 07:19:50 UTC 
This bug is like this one:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467206
and very similar as this one:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15019

To simply put -- I run google earth, immediately or after searching localization, I get (always) entire system freeze. Keyboard is not responding, mouse is not responding, the only thing is responding is cold power off button.

System: opensuse 11.1, dell latitude e6500 with intel graphics (4500MHD).

The list of all xorg-x11-* packages is here:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=323580
The latest log of X11 after freeze is here:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=323582

Please let me know what can I say more about it/help you investigate this issue.
Comment 1 Gordon Jin 2009-10-25 18:18:05 UTC 
The driver version (2.5) is too old. Various changes after that: exa->uxa, ums->kms.

Please try a newer version, with xf86-video-intel>=2.8 (better the latest 2.9), xserver>=1.6, and kernel>=2.6.30 (better 2.6.31).
Comment 2 Maciej Pilichowski 2009-10-25 23:33:03 UTC 
Gordon, thank you. Could you just tell me how I convert the numbering you use and what I see. For example I have xorg-x11-server with number 7.4-52.2 which is much greater value than 1.6. So either I meet this requirement or we are talking about different xservers.
Comment 3 Gordon Jin 2009-10-25 23:39:31 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Gordon, thank you. Could you just tell me how I convert the numbering you use
> and what I see. For example I have xorg-x11-server with number 7.4-52.2 which
> is much greater value than 1.6. So either I meet this requirement or we are
> talking about different xservers.

7.4 is actually a Xorg version not xserver version. E.g. The latest Xorg 7.5 includes xserver 1.7.1.

You might ask Novell where to get the latest driver/xserver shipped by Novell.
Comment 4 Maciej Pilichowski 2009-10-26 02:02:43 UTC 
OK, I did and I got this answer from Stefan:
"With X11:XOrg packages you're already using xf86-video-intel 2.9.0/xserver
1.6.5. "

In a second I will attach the log file explicitly, I thought the links were allowed.

I will update the kernel as well, and then I will post if it did any difference.
Comment 5 Maciej Pilichowski 2009-10-26 02:03:49 UTC 
Created attachment 30687 [details]
/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old (from freeze)
Comment 6 Julien Cristau 2009-10-26 02:56:05 UTC 
> --- Comment #4 from Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins@wp.pl>  2009-10-26 02:02:43 PST ---
> OK, I did and I got this answer from Stefan:
> "With X11:XOrg packages you're already using xf86-video-intel 2.9.0/xserver
> 1.6.5. "
> 
your log shows xserver 1.5.2 and intel 2.5.0, so you're not using those
package...
Comment 7 Maciej Pilichowski 2009-10-27 11:24:07 UTC 
It appears that I am not able to update xorg-* packages and I cannot update entire system too (first -- because after update X11 crashes at start, second -- because newer OS does not have KDE3 packages anymore).

So sorry for the trouble, thank you for your help, I close the report now.

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