On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:54:10 +0100, Udo Steinberg <udo@hypervisor.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> With Linux-3.2-rc6 I'm frequently seeing GPU hangs when large amounts of
> text scroll in an xterm, such as when extracting a tar archive. Such as this
> one (note the timestamps):

Can you try with semaphores disabled?

i915.semaphores=0

And, you should be able to remove the explicit rc6 argument now; if it
will work, the kernel should turn it on automatically.

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