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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #16686
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 16686

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: radeon DRI and SMP is bad

(In reply to comment #12)
> 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

Thanks for testing.

> I hope this can be fixed for Breezy.

That's unlikely unless the fix is extremely simple and obvious. Ubuntu 5.10
releases in just a few days, and there is no time to regression test non-obvious
fixes.