*ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung

**cccc** · April 26th, 2011

hi

I have Lucid Lynx with Kernel 2.6.32 and after 10-20 min working the Gnome Desktop freezes.

I have these messages in /var/log/syslog:

[drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung
render error detected, EIR: 0x00000000
[drm:i915_do_wait_request] *ERROR* i915_do_wait_request returns -5 (awaiting 3115 at 3114)

My video card:

Code:

description: VGA compatible controller
             product: 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
             version: 01
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
             configuration: driver=i915 latency=0

Code:

# lsmod | grep video
video                  14605  1 i915
output                  1204  1 video
thermal_sys             9378  3 video,processor,thermal

Howto solve this problem?

**cccc** · April 30th, 2011

I've done the Kernal upgrade to 2.6.38-2-686, but still doesn't help.

**cyberbuff** · June 4th, 2011

I am having the same issues with 11.04. Kernel updated to 2.6.39.0. No dice. :-/

**cccc** · June 8th, 2011

SOLVED in Debian!

On the end I changed from Ubuntu to Debian Squeeze, but I had exact the same problem.

Installing these debian wheezy packages on squeeze solved my problem:

Code:

# dpkg -l |grep xserver-xorg-video-intel
ii  xserver-xorg-video-intel             2:2.15.0-3                        X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display driver

# dpkg -l |grep libdrm-intel1
ii  libdrm-intel1                        2.4.25-2                          Userspace interface to intel-specific kernel DRM services -- runtime

You can try after making an image (backup) of your ubuntu system, to add these wheezy repos
in /etc/apt/sources.list:

Code:

deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free

and install:

Code:

# apt-get update
# apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel libdrm-intel1

BTW pls let know if helps.

**cyberbuff** · June 8th, 2011

Thanks. I just removed compiz-core and compiz-plugins. That worked. Since I not much into cool graphics, Compiz was of no use, anyway.

**cccc** · June 9th, 2011

Originally Posted by cyberbuff

Thanks. I just removed compiz-core and compiz-plugins. That worked. Since I not much into cool graphics, Compiz was of no use, anyway.

BTW have you installed xserver-xorg-video-intel and libdrm-intel1?

**cccc** · June 10th, 2011

Another possible solution for the 82845G video driver problem:

1.) create /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Code:

# Xorg -configure
# cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2.) put the following in /etc/X11/xorg.conf in Section "Device":

Code:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "intel"
Option "Shadow" "true"
Option "DRI" "false"
BoardName "Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Run "lspci | grep VGA" to find out the "BusID" and the "BoardName", for example:

Code:

# lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)

BTW for additional information run the "lspci -v" command.

**oldmankit** · September 28th, 2011

Originally Posted by cccc

On the end I changed from ubuntu to debian, but I had the same problems.

That's a problem of intel driver and not the kernel.

Installing these debian wheezy packages on squeeze solved my problem:

Code:

# dpkg -l |grep xserver-xorg-video-intel
ii  xserver-xorg-video-intel             2:2.15.0-3                        X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display driver

# dpkg -l |grep libdrm-intel1
ii  libdrm-intel1                        2.4.25-2                          Userspace interface to intel-specific kernel DRM services -- runtime

You can try after making an image (backup) of your ubuntu system, to add these wheezy repos
in /etc/apt/sources.list:

Code:

deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free

and install:

Code:

# apt-get update
# apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel libdrm-intel1

BTW pls let know if helps.

Is this solution for Ubuntu or Debian?

**cccc** · October 8th, 2011

Originally Posted by oldmankit

Is this solution for Ubuntu or Debian?

It should work on both systems, pls try and let know if helps.

**oldmankit** · October 10th, 2011

What fixed it for me was:

Code:

sudo  add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo  apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

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