Bug#457233: xserver-xorg-video-ati: freezes system after a few minutes with comiz on rv370

[Xavier Bestel]

On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 08:53 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 22:18 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > 
> > this driver has always locked the machine randomly, but I could live
> > with it. The latest experimental version though is unusable: after a few
> > minutes the machine freezes (hard freeze, like a PCI bus lockup: not
> > even ping works, but the keyboard leds are blinking).
> > Note: the previous experimental version was more usable for me.
> > 
> > Frankly I really don't know what I can do to help, because once frozen
> > the machine is a brick. Does someone have a idea for that problem ?
> 
> The best start is probably to try and isolate the change(s) that made
> things worse for you.
> 
> 
> > (==) RADEON(0): Using AGP 8x
> 
> Was the previous version (1:6.7.196-2?) using this rate as well? Does
> Option "AGPMode" "4" help with the current version?

The only available versions are 1:6.7.192-3 and 1:6.6.193-3, and I can't
remember what 1:6.7.196-2 was setting as AGP mode.
Do you want me to try one of them ? (At present I can only access my box
remotely, so I can install something else and see the log, but I can't
test with compiz).

	Xav