Meet the new Intel, same as the old Intel

While playing DooM on Xavier, eventually I found my speakers through the dock resetting every few minutes. Of course, I couldn’t help but wonder if this was the system having a problem or because of using Chocolate-Doom as a Flatpak. But nope, just an old familiar pain.

Mar 11 01:51:11 xavier kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] *ERROR* Atomic update failure on pipe A (start=115216 end=115217) time 161 us, min 1192, max 1199, scanline start 1188, end 1200

Actually, compared to what great fun Skylake’s Gen 9 graphics chips were to fuck with when they first came out, I probably should count myself lucky that this machine’s Xe / Gen 12 based stuff has been relatively stable under KDE/Wayland. Also in retrospect that nothing went worse than the audio getting cut off.