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I got the patch from this bug report, just fallow the link to the
freedesktop-bugs 7154 and the patch is there somewhere.
I'll attach it here too.
Eli Criffield
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Excellent, could you please attach that patch to this bug report?
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I made a new package with the patch installed, (everything else is the
same as the previous package) so until an official new package comes
out, you can use the one i made, and live without the crashs.
wget
http://eli.criffield.net/ubuntu/xserver-xorg-driver-ati_6.5.7.3-0ubuntu8_i386.deb
sudo dpk
the upstream bug report has a patch attached to it. Perhaps that patch
could easily applied to the driver in dapper.
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Any answers on when this is going to be fixed in dapper. I'm also getting
random total lockups, sometimes once a week sometimes 4 times a day.
(IBM T42 laptop with radeon 7500)
Seems silly that its not fixed in dapper, dapper is suppost to be the
Long Term Supported Stable versioin right?
Eli
seems to be fixed in edgy.
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Lou: I moved to Edgy and I have had no freeze any longer. Edgy is great. With
dapper server I had problems with the cups too.
Denes
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If the bug is fixed in Edgy, how long until we'll see it backported to
Dapper? Lets put the LTS to the test. :)
Meanwhile, is it possible to selectively use Edgy's xserver-xorg package
(and drivers) without upgrading to Edgy? I have about ten machines to
support for one client, and would prefer
eze80: I'm pretty sure it is unrelated. This bug in the open-source
Radeon driver has now been fixed in Edgy. I think your problem is
caused by some bug in the closed-source Nvidia driver.
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Hello.. I wonder if this is related to bug number #67225? I found it
recently and it's giving me lots of trouble.
I don't know how to solve it... can you help me?
I'm running the latest updates of kubuntu dapper with an nv 6800gt using
the proprietary nv drivers.
One thing is that I had to insta
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Marius: You were right. After a week I got a freeze with Kubuntu6.06 too. (With
U6.06 I got freezes in every hour.)
But now I run fine for a week with U6.10. I hope it will keep on.
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This bug does not appear in the list of ~80 current bugs for Dapper on
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/dapper/+bugs (or the next page).
But I believe this is a current Dapper bug, and so anyone wanting to
know the status of Dapper should see it. Strangely, when I type 47775
in the search fiel
ahh - sorry i should have checked to see what packages edgy was running,
thanks for the nudge!
of to edgy we go
-mmc
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My apologies - I understand the Dapper vs Edgy versioning situation.
I'm using a 6.6.1 deb from another Radeon bug here on Dapper to fix the
Cairo/Ubuntulooks theme rendering problems in the original Dapper
drivers. I would just apt-get source and dpkg-buildpackage this new
driver release, but the
Sorry for being unclear. I upgraded to Edgy.
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hezekiah, it looks like 'xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.6.2-0ubuntu3' marius
references is actually a later release that what is default in dapper
... certainly my dapper shows i have version: 6.5.7.3-0ubuntu7 (unless
mine is out of sync ) i dont think the package numbering is
designed to reflect
Is there anything special required for a user to do a manual backport of
this to Dapper? Edgy still seems to have a large number of problems on
my system, so I'm sticking with Dapper for the time being.
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Yay! It looks like xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.6.2-0ubuntu3 fixed the
problem:
* Fix radeon aperture size check that was causing hangs and crashes on
RN50, M6, M7 with 8/16/32(??) MBs of VRAM:
- 08_radeon_fix_aperture_size_check.diff
Thanks to Ben H., Dave Airlied and Michel Danzer fo
Freezes occur *very* often in Edgy. Of course this might be caused by
many other things, but only when in dual display mode - I have not
experienced any freezes with just a single display.
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I tried to compile the upstream git head version of xf86-video-ati on
Dapper, but gave up after several hours of fighting automake/aclocal.
I'll try to build it on edgy and see if it fixes the crashes for me.
Maybe first I'll wait until edgy's X actually crashes.
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Denes: it is entirely possible that Qt excercises different parts of the
driver than Gtk+ does, and therefore the chance of crashes may be
different.
It is also true that the crashes are very irregular: sometimes I get
three crashes in one day, sometimes I get two consecutive crash-free
weeks, wit
I can confirm this also happens in Edgy Eft Beta..
I just installed Edgy Eft onto my Thinkpad T-30 with an ATI Radeon 7500
Mobility.
All i did was an aptitude update and aptitude dist-upgrade
after updating within 10 minutes the system locked up..
hopefully the fix will be in the new patches? w
Sorry for asking a stupid question, but accordingly to
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7154 this bug is now fixed.
When should I then expect to have my update manager pop up and install a
new version?
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No freeze with Kubuntu 6.06.
I have Comnaq Evo160 laptop, ATI Radeon Mobility card.
It was rock solid with Ubuntu 5.10, but freezes randomly with U6.06. I tried
everything, but no result.
It has been working with Kubuntu 6.06 for weeks without hang up. Everithing is
the same, but KDE! Interesting
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Just a short comment that might be useful in the tracing process.
In 9 of 10 cases the freeze occurs while starting "Evince" (opening one
or more PDF-files).
I have not experienced this PDF-freeze in single monitor-mode, only in
dual.
B:)
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siriusnova, have to tried disabling the MergedFB & dropping the colour
depth to 16bit?
it hasnt completey solved the problem but does seem to change the
lockups from every two hours to more like once every two weeks, which at
least has made my system useable. i too have tried all the hints and
tip
I have to add to this, however i dont know if its related but it seems
to be the same problem..
I am running Ubuntu Dapper on an IBM Thinkpad T30 with an ATI Radeon 7500
Mobility
I am using the X.org "ati" driver..
I can very rarely go more then 2 hours without a total system freeze, no
input, c
I am on Dapper, and have tried changing the first of my device sections
to include the changes suggested by Bin Trihn - but since I have
experienced two system freezes.
So in my case the suggestion did not solve the case.
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I've found a solution for the ATI lockups...
Hopefully, you guys will be able to independently confirm it.
I've got a Dell with ATI M6 running edgy with xserver-xorg-video-ati
6.6.2-0ubuntu1. The stock xorg.conf causes fast frequent random lockups
at 24 bpp and somehow less frequent random lockup
yip i too had smooth runnings on breezy, however the problem didnt arise
immediately for me in dapper [i've been running dapper since flight 5]
... i'm also reluctant to roll back to breezy at this stage, & I was
hinting in one of my earlier posts if anyone had managed to roll back
xorg in dapper t
I must add that it freezes with OR without the atheros card installed.
So this does not seem to be the cause.
I don't think that heat is a problem. I have tried squirting Freezer
spray into the fan inlets every couple minutes to keep it all nice and
cool, but it still kept on freezing.
I'm going
Just some more info which might help in hunting down the problem:
Firstly, this problem is driving me absolutely crazy!! My laptop freezes
so often, I'm loosing work and hair!!
System:
Compaq Evo N410c
1.2GHz P3 mobile
ati mobility radeon M6 LY (16MB)
512MB SDRAM
40GB HDD
NEC DVD-RW
Atheros AR521
Disabling DRI didn't help -- video mode switches frequently caused
crashes with rainbow-filled screens.
I haven't tried to disable both DRI and MergedFB.
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hmm, i _thought_ it was stable with MergedFB disabled, i had about two
weeks running without a crash, and suddenly the lockups have re-appeared
(three in the last two days). I've reconfigured my Xorg again just
incase a xserver update had affected my conf :(
has anybody had any success in gaining
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Yes, my system seems to be completely stable as well as long as I don't
use MergedFB. However, it's rather useful if you want to use any other
displays. Hopefully something can be done about this, as the ATI driver
seems to currently be quite crippled with this and all of the Cairo
rendering issu
i too have been experiencing these total system freezes on dapper, as
per the other posters its happening with VESA or ATI configured in my
xorg ...
after reading this thread ->
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7154 i reconfigured my
Xorg to not use MergedFB & so far i've had one week
As mentioned in my previous posts (e.g.
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-driver-
ati/+bug/47775/comments/23) I am experiencing quite random freezes both
with and without Xinerama.
And as a comment to my latest post
(https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg
2hansen: are you talking about random freezes when you do nothing
specific, or are you talking about freezes when you run xrandr?
I use dual-head constantly. I avoid using xrandr. Sometimes weeks pass
with no problems. Sometimes I get three freezes in a single day,
usually just after switching
I have now for about one week been using a dual-head setup without any
problems --- and without (knowingly) modifying my configuration ---
besides from switching from a CRT monitor (EIZO FlexScan T68) to a LCD
(Samsung SyncMaster 172s) (same resolution). So either something has
changed or this bug
You can find the code here:
http://64.71.152.24/ubuntu/ati-fixes-for-dapper-6.06/
But please, read the main page first.
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Paul - Where are the kernel source changes? No offense, but I'm a
little reluctant to install some random kernel package from a non-
official source.
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Out of interest, do the binaries mentioned at:
http://64.71.152.24/ make any difference in 16bpp or 32bpp mode?
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While there may be some connection to NFS mounts, I doubt that it's the
driving factor here because I've had these crashes quite often but I've
never used an NFS mount on this system.
That said, sometimes I can go for days without a crash, while other
times the crashes occur several times a day -
I have the same issue: freezing on an IBM Thinkpad X31 with a ATI Radeon
card using the radeon driver. It appears to happen when I use an
external monitor.
Alos noticed something that might be of interest. My fileserver has been
dead for the last couple of days and I didn't get a single freeze. Th
I've had the same issue as Andreas - I have had freezes while using
MergedFB and not using xrandr, but if I do use xrandr to resize the
screen (two heads -> one head -> back to two heads) it will freeze
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I experience the same thing on a Thinkpad T41 with a ATI Radeon 7500 M7.
As soon as I enable MergedFB and attach a second display I experience
occasional freezes. No need to invoke any xrand tool.
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Just adding that I am using the latest Dapper: xserver-xorg-driver-ati
1:6.5.7.3-0ubuntu7 (dapper)
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Just attaching my xorg.conf, in case it might help.
As mentioned in my previous post I am having no troubles when I am in
"single head" mode, but as soon I attach another display a freeze will
occur (not instantly, but surely) - this is also true even if I comment
out the Xinerama configuration an
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I have the same problem with a IBM Thinkpad T41 and the ati/radeon driver.
At the office I use an external CRT monitor (hp p1130).
The laptop freeze a few times a week. The machine is stone dead and have
to be rebooted. it does not respond the ping either...
Ubuntu Breezy did not have this proble
I am having problems with my ATI Mobility M6 LY [Radeon Mobility 9000]
on my Sony PCG-V505AP laptop. If I use the dual head (connecting a CRT
to the VGA-out) a freeze will occur within 1-20 mins. It doesn't matter
if I use Xinerama or just two separate X-screens. When not using dual-
head I am havi
The complete freeze happens with my Thinkpad x32 as well. Usually after
30 minutes or more of use, and not related to any particular program (or
so it seems)
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Jacob - I don't think there's any way you could test this with the VESA
driver - there is no MergedFB support. Unless I misunderstand the
question?
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does any of you have the same problem with the vesa drivers?
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No its not overheating.
My T42 freezed last time at just CPU 39°C GPU 46°C Wifi 44°C. Breezy
never did, and I have had much higher temps. If it should be a temp
problem Breezy should have the same. Fan speed on Thinkpads are
controller by the embedded controller, onless you turn it off with
ibm_ac
I don't think it's overheating.
Me too I have an ATI Mobility 7500 on a Compaw N800v.
Same behaviour, with CPUT temperature of 50°C and 71° C.
In addition, the freeze seems to occur when my pcmcia madwifi card loses
connection.
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please disregard my earlier post, I don't think it's Xorg, I found this
bug:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=196783
Which indicates it's a fan/heat problem. Since monitoring the
temperature of my system, that does seem to be the case. I've followed
the advice in that thread, it seems
I have the same problem - ATI 9200mobility with 32mb of ram. xrandr
will freeze the system when using MergedFB.
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Similar problem here using ati M6 card on a thinkpad x30.
System locks up totally after 10-40 minutes of use, no visible errors,
only started when I upgraded to dapper-release (earlier releases of
dapper were fine).
A solution to this one would be great!
I'll try downgrading to breezy again for
I had the same problem with an Thinkpad T30 (ATI Radeon Mobility 7500).
I had no freezes after switching to the vesa drivers. Maybe this is a
short-time solution for you.
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I've got a similar problem on my T43p, also with a ATi mobility chip
(FireGL M24 GL). Ironically, while typing this the first time, the
machine locked up :(.
I don't think this is directly related to the x.org driver, since I
experience the lock ups not only with radeon, but also with the ati and
I stopped using xrandr (and bought an LCD monitor so I can use a dual-
head layout at home as well as at work instead), but occasionally my
laptop freezes. This happens most often after switching to a different
workspace in metacity.
I would not be surprised to discover there are many bugs. One
I experience the same problems, but I am not sure if it has something to
do with multi-heading. Like one of the posters before also stated, my X
freeze problems begun shortly before Dapper was released as final in the
end of May 2006. Since this time I get occasional freezes at least one
time a day
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** Bug watch added: Freedesktop Bugzilla #7154
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7154
** Also affects: xserver-xorg-driver-ati (upstream) via
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