Comment 158 for bug 541511

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In , legolas558 (legolas558) wrote :

(In reply to comment #132)
> (In reply to comment #127)
> > Oh, and add some details about your box, please (brand&model + cpu,
> > mostly, the rest is all in the dmesg, anyway).
>
> See my first post: Thinkpad X40, 855GM (rev 02), Pentium M (family 6, model 13,
> stepping 6: It has clflush).
>
> But the hangs are gone, so I'm happy. I prefer slight glyph corruption that
> goes
> away when I cause a refresh (e.g. increase text size) with snappy performance
> to
> the sluggishness caused by the current patch.

I also own an 855GM (rev 02), but I had no glyph corruption with patch v6; without the locking patch I experienced crashes, so the most recent patch is really necessary for me, although I'd also like to see it more performant. But first comes reliability, and right now it's not crashing anymore.