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xserver-xorg-video-i810 package

when I close laptop lid, xorg takes 100% and never recovers

Bug #98668 reported by Roman Shtylman
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xserver-xorg-video-i810 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg

When I close the lid of my laptop, the Xorg process jumps to 100% cpu and when I reopen, the screen is blank and xorg stays at 100%. The only way for me to recover is to ssh in and kill xorg.

I am running ubuntu feist am64 edition with a core2 duo and an intel i945 video card using the i810 driver in xorg.

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Bedo (bdonnette) wrote :

I seem to have a fairly similar bug when quitting Xorg. I shall see if the bug is actually the same, otherwise I'll open a new ticket.

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Patrick Salami (pat-entitycom) wrote :

I think this might be the same as bug 120347.
In both cases, X takes up 100% CPU after the screen turns blank. The difference is that in this scenario here, the screen turns blank because the lid of the laptop is closed. Both situations are related to the power state of the screen changing (or about to be changed) and X subsequently going berserk, with the only way to recover being logging onto a console and killing X manually.

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unggnu (unggnu) wrote :

Could you please recheck it with Gutsy Final Live CD? In Gutsy i810 driver is deprecated and intel driver is used instead.

Changed in xserver-xorg-video-i810:
status: New → Incomplete
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Michael Nelson (michael.nelson) wrote :

I can verify that for me the issue was the deprecated i810 driver. I had upgraded from Feisty (where my laptop didn't suffer this problem) to Gutsy, but because I had manually changed xorg.conf a long while back (for an unrelated issue), Xorg continued to use the i810 driver.

Running:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

to automatically update my xorg.conf (as suggested in the file itself) straightened out my xorg setup and my computer hasn't exhibited the freezing behaviour since.

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unggnu (unggnu) wrote :

Problem seems to be fixed in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 so I close this bug report.
Feel free to open it again if it still happens under Gutsy with the new Intel driver.

Changed in xserver-xorg-video-i810:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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tlvince (tlvince) wrote :

I have this problem on a fresh Xubuntu 7.10. I havent tried reconfiguring xorg (because it was a fresh install), but I will soon and report back.

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