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xserver-xorg-driver-ati package

  1. Bug #38181
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 38181

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tuxo (beat-fasel) wrote :

Over the last day my computer locked up many times. Interesting to note is that I can play tuxracer without a system freeze, but when I launch glxgears, the system freezes hard after some time, especially when moving the glxgears window around.

As for the freezing of the desktop when no 3D application is present (e.g. when surfing the internet) I experienced at least 10 lockups in one day and this both under GNOME and KDE. As I have an atheros wifi card, maybe this lockup is cause by bug #37773 ([madwifi] Semi-random system lockups in Dapper). As far as my system concerns, the memory is fine (I did a memory test).

Here some system specs:

$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev c4)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP]
0000:00:04.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
0000:00:04.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:04.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 16)
0000:00:04.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 16)
0000:00:04.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
0000:00:0a.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
0000:00:0a.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
0000:00:0a.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)
0000:00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
0000:00:0b.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 07)
0000:00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R200 QL [Radeon 8500 LE]

uname -a
Linux lego 2.6.15-23-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 23 14:03:07 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

Thanks,
Beat