[Intel-gfx] Game locking up machine on i915 - please confirm/object it's gfx related

[Robert Huitl]

Hi,

can somebody with an i915 or similar chip please download and run the game at 
http://www.clonkx.de/rage/cr_full_linux.tar.bz2. When I run it, it starts 
loading, but will never finish. I see way too much disk activity for the 
relatively small game data, and loading will never finish. Instead, the system 
will become VERY unresponsive, VT switches take seconds up to minutes, and 
eventually the system will lock up (although SysRq still works).

I'm not sure if this problem is related to the video driver, but considering 
that there are some nasty bugs left in the video driver, I figured asking here 
might be worth a try.

Of course, it could be that the game code is buggy. On the other hand, I tried 
running the predecessor game Clonk Endeavour (awesome game, btw!) in Wine, and 
it has exactly the same problem as the Linux version. It works fine when 
booting into Windows, so the hardware is perfectly capable of running it.

I'm running 2.6.34-rc6, xf86-video-intel git Apr 29, and libdrm git Apr 5 on a 
Thinkpad X41 with an Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express 
Graphics Controller (rev 03).

Thanks,
  Robert