[Intel-gfx] Gvim causes Xorg to crash in Intel driver

[Edd Barrett]

Hello everyone,

I raised a bug [1] a few days ago about a crash in the Intel driver's
SNA code on OpenBSD. I'm posting here to try to drum up some interest.
This bug is affecting a few users (including myself). It prevents us
using our text editor of choice, gvim.

I've also reported to x11 at openbsd.org.

Since reporting this, I have realised that the code used in OpenBSD is a
little behind the bleeding edge [2]. It looks like the crashing
functionality has been (at least) refactored. I've browsed the git
history looking for a fix, but I haven't found one. There's a good
chance that this bug still exists in git head.

I'm going to try the latest Intel driver code over the weekend (if it
will build on OpenBSD without too many changes).

In the meantime, does this crash ring any bells to any of you? Ideally
we could find a minimal patch that could be applied to the OpenBSD tree
without updating the whole driver code (just yet).

Any help or advice is most appreciated.

Thanks!

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96194
[2] http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/xenocara/driver/xf86-video-intel/

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Best Regards
Edd Barrett

http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk