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From: cpollock@embarqmail.com (Chris)
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 14:19:32 -0600
Subject: kernel: [154858.820009] [drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR*
	Hangcheck timer elapsed.
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On Mon, 2014-12-15 at 13:43 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:01:54 -0800, Greg KH said:
> > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:59:27AM -0600, Chris wrote:
> 
> > > That's what I thought Greg but wanted to make sure. AFAIK I'm not having
> > > any hardware related issues but I would like to know what the 'Hangcheck
> > > timer' is. Possibly you can enlighten me?
> >
> > That looks like a driver-specific timer, the code would tell you more,
> > take a look at it!
> 
> I'm pretty sure that's a timer for the i915 driver that detects if the
> GPU has gone into an infinite loop due to (usually) buggy programming from
> the operating system....

Thank you Valdis as far as the OS we're talking about Ubuntu not the
bios correct?

Chris

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