4.4-rc, intel dri i915, regular hangs and corruptions

Dear all,

since 4.4-rc (at least rc2 it was the first I tested), the Intel DRI is in very broken state.

Hardware: Sony VAIO Pro
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 90b6
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 40
Memory at f5c00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at f000 [size=64]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features
Kernel driver in use: i915

Symptoms:

* font corruption
sometime sets of glyphs, or practically all glyphs disappear related probably to bug
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55500
I have sent some info there already, without response

Currently my font displays some kind of strange symbols instead of an m ... looks a bit like a Kanji.

* drm/i915 hang:
GPU HANG: ecode 7:0:0x86d2bff9, in cinnamon [9300], reason: Ring hung, action: reset opened a new bug as advised
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93279
several other hangs like that, reported only one

* intelfb is dead
switching to the console often leaves a black console

Most of the time this happens after a suspend to ram and wake up, but not always.

Let me know if there is anything else one might want to know

Thanks

Norbert

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I remember a similar bug around 2.99.917 but that tag is over a year old now and there have been many bug fixes since. You'll need to verify you can still reproduce your issue with the latest from
git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel and if so do a bisect from the previous working kernel or xf86-video-intel to identify the problematic commit.

Hi Chris,

thanks for your answer.

I will try the latest intel driver, but in case it helps or you get an idea, I found that it has to do with the Antialiasing settings:

I am using an OTF font (Lucida Sans OT Regular) with cinnamon. Sometimes when I wake the computer up from suspend to ram the fonts are gone.

*BUT*: Switching from (in Font Settings of Cinnamon settings)
Antialiasing: Grayscale
*away* fixes the problem.

WIth Antialiasing: Rgba or None the fonts remain stable as far as I can see, while with Grayscale they are disappearing.

In fact I can turn the fonts off and on without a problem by simply swithcing the antialiasing.

Maybe this rings a bell at someone.

Thanks

Norbert

(please Cc)

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