Comment 94 for bug 348332

Hello Gerardo,

I have exactly the same video card in a Thinkpad r52. Using a 2.6.30
series kernel fixed my problem. I did not have a freeze for months.

Hope that helps,
Baris

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Gerardo Campos <email address hidden> wrote:
> I have been having the freezes problem, at least every 30 minutes,
>
> I tried all the following suggestions.
>
> 1. Setting to none the visual effects
> 2. Removing compiz
> 3. Updating the /etc/X11/xorg.conf to several recommendations,
>
> Doing all of the above, reduced the problem to one freeze per day.
>
> I found that updating the kernel to 2.6.29.6 fixed my problem, that
> eventually allowed me to:
>
> 1. Restored /etc/X11/xorg.conf to the default settings
> 2. Reinstall compiz
> 3. Set visual effects to normal.
>
> I have been running this for 3 days, and no freeze yet.
>
> Ubunto 9.04 Jaunty, installed in an IBM Thinkpad T43
>
> $ lspci -nn | grep VGA
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Mobility Radeon X300] [1002:5460]
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux mylinux 2.6.29-02062906-generic #02062906 SMP Fri Jul 3 10:56:30 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> I installed the prebuilt kernel from:
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.29.6/
>
> Saludos
>
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