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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #195051
  2. Comment #87

Comment 87 for bug 195051

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote : Re: X freezes in drmCommandWrite() when Compiz is enabled on ATI Radeon Mobility 9600

From Alex's reply on the upstream bug, it sounds like these freezes are common symptoms of a variety of independent bugs - the best default settings for EXA, AGP, etc. etc. are extremely hardware specific. Thus, each of these issues needs to be treated as a separate bug.

So what I'd like to do is focus this particular bug report on Nick's hardware (and anyone else that has identical hardware), and please have each of the rest of you file NEW bugs for your freeze issue. When you do so, please include the following in your report:

 * /etc/X11/xorg.conf
 * /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old from after when you've had a freeze
 * Output of lspci -vvnn
 * A full backtrace (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingXorg for directions)
 * A description of what happens. Was Compiz running? What are the exact symptoms? How long have you noticed the issue? What steps seem most likely to reproduce the issue?

Meanwhile, since it seems a fix is not at hand, I'm dropping the milestone for this particular case of the issue.