Comment 18 for bug 715330

Indeed it launches! I'm in Unity right now.

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Jorge O. Castro <email address hidden> wrote:
> >From the upstream bug I was able to glean a workaround: My
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf looks like this:
>
> Section "Device"
>        Identifier      "Default Device"
>        Driver  "radeon"
>        Option  "EnablePageFlip"        "False"
> EndSection
>
> and it loaded Unity right up on login. adam/mrmagos, can you guys try
> this on your laptops and confirm? Thanks!
>
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> Title:
>  Freeze after login with KMS enabled on Radeon HD6310
>
> Status in X.org XServer - ATI gfx chipset driver:
>  Unknown
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
>  New
> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-ati” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati
>
>  I'm using Natty on an HP dm1z-3000 series, which has an AMD Radeon HD
>  6310 on-board graphics. The system boots as expected, but once I log
>  in the system becomes completely unresponsive. This seems due to
>  hardware acceleration, because if I choose either 'safe mode' option,
>  I get a useable desktop without hardware acceleration. The same is
>  true if I disable KMS with radeon.modeset=0 at boot time; I get a
>  useable desktop, albeit without hardware acceleration.
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
>  Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.13.2+git20110124.fadee040-0ubuntu4
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-2.29-generic 2.6.38-rc3
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-2-generic x86_64
>  Architecture: amd64
>  Date: Tue Feb  8 13:25:55 2011
>  DistUpgraded: Fresh install
>  DistroCodename: natty
>  DistroVariant: ubuntu
>  GdmLog2:
>
>  GraphicsCard:   Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1611]
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110207)
>  MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dm1 Notebook PC
>  ProcEnviron:
>   LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
>   LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
>   LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.utf8
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-2-generic root=UUID=b2e83bd6-b452-41d7-987b-20c8a49898e5 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 radeon.modeset=0
>  SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-ati
>  dmi.bios.date: 12/20/2010
>  dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
>  dmi.bios.version: F.03
>  dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
>  dmi.board.name: 1611
>  dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
>  dmi.board.version: 96.19
>  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Chassis Asset Tag
>  dmi.chassis.type: 10
>  dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
>  dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
>  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.03:bd12/20/2010:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondm1NotebookPC:pvr0589100000252B00000320100:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn1611:rvr96.19:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvrChassisVersion:
>  dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dm1 Notebook PC
>  dmi.product.version: 0589100000252B00000320100
>  dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
>  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.2.1+glibmainloop4-0ubuntu9
>  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu3
>  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10-1ubuntu1
>  version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6~3ubuntu3
>  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.13.2+git20110124.fadee040-0ubuntu4
>  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-1ubuntu6
>  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu4
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