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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #348332
  2. Comment #90

Comment 90 for bug 348332

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Fabian Köster (maestro-alubia) wrote :

Your summarization are IMO right, Jonas.

I am not quite sure that the bug is really "fixed" in the stated kernel-versions. The bug just does not appear when using it, right? Maybe thats just a coincidence!?
My point is, that the X-Server freezes with the jaunty-kernel 2.6.28 and nobody could yet specify what is causing this freezes. Furthermore, nobody could specify which change in the kernel-history "fixed" the problem.
Julien Cristau from the Debian-team said [1] that this "sounds like a gpu lockup". I am not an expert on this subject but this may be caused by a bug in a kernel-driver as well as in the radeon-driver or xorg itself.

Regarding the "second bug" which is still existant when using 2.6.29 the question is the same: Which code is causing this freeze?

Should we open another bug report for the "second bug" which is not reproducible by Jonas' script?

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=524558#10