Comment 2 for bug 493220

Hi,

I also have a Radeon card and I don't get "floating-point exception". Please note that I run Lucid with the default kernel and a more recent rovclock version than yours. Maybe you could give to Lucid.

$ sudo rovclock -i
Radeon overclock 0.6e by Hasw (<email address hidden>)

Found ATI card on 01:00, device id: 0x71c5
I/O base address: 0x3000
Video BIOS shadow found @ 0xc0000
Invalid reference clock from BIOS: 0.0 MHz
Memory size: 262144 kB
Memory channels: 0, CD,CH only: 0
tRcdRD: 3
tRcdWR: 1
tRP: 3
tRAS: 6
tRRD: 1
tR2W-CL: 1
tWR: 1
tW2R: 0
tW2Rsb: 0
tR2R: 1
tRFC: 13
tWL(0.5): 0
tCAS: 0
tCMD: 0
tSTR: 0
XTAL: 27.0 MHz, RefDiv: 13

Core: 1.29 MHz, Mem: 0.0 MHz

$ lspci |grep Radeon
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M56P [Radeon Mobility X1600]

$ apt-cache policy rovclock
rovclock:
  Installed: 0.6e-6
  Candidate: 0.6e-6
  Version table:
 *** 0.6e-6 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04

$ uname -a
Linux simon-laptop 2.6.32-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 20 14:21:58 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux