Bug#524280: Same problem on Radeon HD 3200

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Astrid S. de Wijn
<astrid-spammenot at syonax.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:15:46PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:16 AM, Astrid S. de Wijn
>
>> > Please let me know if you need any more details on my hardware cofiguration.
>> > Unfortunately I am not in a position to reboot this computer a lot right now
>> > for testing different versions, because it is being used for long simulations.
>>
>> If you get a chance, can you try any versions between 6.9.0 and 6.12.x
>> or do a git bisect between 6.9.0 and some some broken release?  Also,
>> did you do anything else like upgrade the amount of ram in the system?
>
> I'm afraid I won't be able to do any rebooting untill these simulations finish,
> which might be a while.
>
> The xorg upgrade did not coincide with a hardware upgrade.  I did fix some
> hardware a few days before, and subsequently ran memtest86+, which reported
> no errors.  The machine has 6 Gb of ram, the motherboard is only a few months
> old, and it has never had any problems with xorg before.

Some people have reported problems on systems with large amounts of
ram due to bad mtrr setup by the bios.

Alex