X and Intel 965

[Andrew Barr]

On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 13:49 -0500, Andrew Barr wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 12:53 -0500, Jeffrey Ross wrote:
> > Regardless I unable to run mplayer (or Realplayer) for that matter 
> > without the display first freezing then going black followed by garbage 
> > along the bottom of the screen.  A Control-Alt-Backspace does not stop X 
> > from running.  The only way to recover the machine from this point is to 
> > reboot the system.  I am still able to connect from a remote system, its 
> > just the display that has become unstable.
> 
> This is a known bug with the Xvideo textured video extension which was
> fixed in the i810 X11 driver git tree. It hasn't been pushed to release
> yet and most distros haven't picked up the fix. If I were you I'd file a
> bug with Redhat. There's a bug on freedesktop.org that should detail the
> issue and the fix.

Also there was a thread on the xorg at lists.freedesktop.org mailing list
titled "i965 textured video crash" that discussed the issue and it's
eventual resolution in detail.

HTH,
Andrew