Comment 25 for bug 1377878

"do you guys have this problem in 14.04.1?"

@wxl:

To answer that question, yes, the problem of the desktop freezing is happening in my G4 iBook with 14.04.1 installed.

Opening web browser seems to freeze the desktop in and of itself. I can open the Terminal and run commands; but, for instance, last night I was trying to "apport-collect 1058641" for the "radeon regression" bug . . . each time the browser opened for me to give permissions on LP . . . system froze. Tried to log in to LP first and then run the Terminal command, but, it brought me back to the browser anyway . . . back into the ice.

System was installed using Boris/Adam's "agpmode=-1"that worked to clean up the 14.10 GUI . . . and I've tried various flavors of "radeonfb" boot parameters . . . problem continues. Yesterday I ran "sudo Xorg -configure" . . . and generated an xorg.conf file . . . it does show "radeon" as the driver, along with a bunch of other stuff . . . rebooted . . . no difference.

I had 14.04 installed before and I used the "video=radeonfb: 1024x768-32@60" params, and dragging windows was jerky and sluggish, no revive from suspend . . . but it did "work" . . . did something change for the worse in the kernel . . . or using agp mode gets me a better GUI for resolution . . . but creates the freeze problem that was in 14.10 . . . over in 14.04? Don't know if shrinking down the xorg.conf file as per Adam S's bug report will do anything, or, somehow trying to change out of the "agp" stipulation . . . or doing a reinstall using the radeonfb params would get around this rather serious problem as far as using 14.04 goes????

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