F7 Intel X3100 fatal crash (Thinkpad T61 using Google Earth)

[Phil Meyer]

Jos Vos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On a Thinkpad T61, with Intel X3100 (965GM) graphics, I can fully
> reproduce a fatal graphics problem when running Google Earth (I
> tried both a 4.0 and a 4.2 version of GE). 
>
> When GE starts zooming in, the screen colormap gets corrupted and then
> the screen becomes black, sometimes showing the "busy circle".  The
> console is the useless until the next reboot, even remotely doing
> "telinit 3" and "telinit 5" does not bring the screen back, the only
> solution is to reboot.
>   

This has been discussed recently.

The new intel chipsets are 'barely' supported right now.  The upstream 
stuff is going well but hasn't reached us yet.  They are busily adding 
the Dell/Ubuntu/intel changes.

It will come down from development by itself with yum, but if we wait 
another couple weeks we should have most of that in updates.


The problem is in xorg-x11-drv-i810 as you have guessed.