Comment 16 for bug 16686

(In reply to comment #15)
> (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!

I found a discussion about this bug including some patches:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1912

hector