[Bug 97805] Occasional GPU Hang: ecode 9:0:0x84dffff8, kernel: 4.7.3,

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97805

--- Comment #4 from yann <yann.argotti at intel.com> ---
(In reply to Artem Shinkarov from comment #3)
> Dear Yann, thanks for a quick reply.  I will give a drm-intel kernel a go in
> the next few days, and will report whether it helped with the problem.
> 
> BTW, any ideas when the changes that you were pointing to will be merged
> into the kernell, if at all?

Some of them are already part of 4.8 and I think that by 4.9 (not having
crystal ball:)) they should be of it.

> 
> Also, I didn't mention this before, but it might be relevant:
> in the xorg.conf, I explicitly set DRI to 3.  This gets rid of the annoying
> tearing that I observe when for example I do some scrolling in firefox.
> 
> Here is a relevant part of the xorg.conf
> Section "Device"
>    Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
>    Driver      "intel"
>    Option      "DRI"    "3"
> EndSection

Right, with DRI3 you don't need to set "TearFree" at "true"

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