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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #16686
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 16686

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Hector (h-centeno) wrote : Re: radeon DRI and SMP is bad

(In reply to comment #9)
> (In reply to comment #8)
> > I'm sorry, no.
> >
> > I realize this means you won't be able to do anything about it, at least before
> > release. That's unforturnate, but this isn't anything I can put too much time
> into.
> >
> > I'll let you know what happened after I upgrade to Breezy, or when the SMP live
> > CD comes out, whichever comes first.
>
> Unfortunately, if we need to wait 6 months for you to test a new package, it is
> unlikely that this bug will be fixed in less than one year. Lowering severity
> since it can't be confirmed in recent code.

I have the same problem and I'm using Breezy. Whenever I use the smp kernel in
combination of my Radeon 7000 card the system gets completely frozen. If I
disable "dri" in my xorg.conf then everything is ok (except that I don't have
any 3d acceleration, of course). This is a common bug and I found a reference to
it here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=152648

I hope this can be fixed for Breezy.