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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #16686
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 16686

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

(In reply to comment #14)
> (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.

...well, whatever time it takes I'm willing to help. Just let me know what can I
do to contribute make things clear for you (e.g. testing, sending logs, etc). On
my side I'll keep trying to find what is this about.

thanks!