Comment 34 for bug 544741

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Arturas K (arturas-k) wrote : Re: [Bug 544741] Re: [X700] KMS, amd64: Kernel panic while trying to launch system > preferences > appearance

On 2010.04.07 19:10, Daniel Lublin wrote:
> I had the same problem here, on a computer similar (identical?) to
> original poster's; Amilo A3667G with Turion 64 and Radeon X700, though
> running a x86 kernel (yes). It was solved with kernel nomodeset and
> radeon.modeset=0.

A3667G and A1667G is the same, but the screen size (yours is bigger).

At the same, I am glad you could reproduce the problem too - I was
fearing my laptop started to show its age...

On 2010.04.03 17:00, Chase Douglas wrote:
> Can you try booting with the cmdline option pci=nomsi? There are reports
> that this can solve instability in certain motherboards.

pci=nomsi radeon.modeset=1 from my preliminary testing is promising.
will tell more, after more testing...