(In reply to comment #39)
> (In reply to comment #37)
> > Unfortunately, the patch from Alex did not fix the issue on Ubuntu.
>
> The purpose of Alex's patch is to make the driver use XAA by default on
> constrained setups like the one in the X log file you attached originally. Is
> that not happening?
No, it wasn't.
The reason the patch wasn't working is not that it's faulty, though. It's just that I only installed the xserver-xorg-video-ati package when the driver for my hardware is xserver-xorg-video-radeon (compiled from the same source package). IOW, I hadn't really installed the fixed package.
I tried again today and I'm happy to report that the patch from Alex does indeed fix the issue. The faulty 104 patch meant self-inflicted pain in Ubuntu. I wonder if there is anything to do for xorg itself? Will the driver compiled from stock xorg default to XAA in low-memory situations?
(In reply to comment #39)
> (In reply to comment #37)
> > Unfortunately, the patch from Alex did not fix the issue on Ubuntu.
>
> The purpose of Alex's patch is to make the driver use XAA by default on
> constrained setups like the one in the X log file you attached originally. Is
> that not happening?
No, it wasn't.
The reason the patch wasn't working is not that it's faulty, though. It's just that I only installed the xserver- xorg-video- ati package when the driver for my hardware is xserver- xorg-video- radeon (compiled from the same source package). IOW, I hadn't really installed the fixed package.
I tried again today and I'm happy to report that the patch from Alex does indeed fix the issue. The faulty 104 patch meant self-inflicted pain in Ubuntu. I wonder if there is anything to do for xorg itself? Will the driver compiled from stock xorg default to XAA in low-memory situations?