[Bug 96194] Gvim causes Xorg to crash in Intel driver.

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96194

--- Comment #1 from Edd Barrett <edd at theunixzoo.co.uk> ---
To follow up on this, there are two workarounds that I know of:

1) Build gvim with a different GUI toolkit. I used the motif GUI for about a
week without any crashes. Although this works, you will lose the modern font
rendering features that the GTK backend offers. You cannot use freetype fonts,
only old school X bitmap fonts.

2) Switch from SNA acceleration to UXA acceleration. I have been running under
this configuration for a week or so now, and again, no crashes. To apply this
workaround, add the following to your xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
    Identifier "devname"
    Driver "intel"
    Option      "AccelMethod"  "uxa"
EndSection


I'm hoping one of the upstream devs who understands the SNA code will pick this
up and fix the crash, so that workarounds are not required.

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