radeon crashes on Toshiba Satellite

[Alex Deucher]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Barna Daniel <daniel.barna at cern.ch> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following card:
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc R200 AGP Bridge [Mobility Radeon
> 7000 IGP] (rev 05)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M]
> also see the attached Xorg.0.log.
>
> Although it works mostly OK, there are many apps that keep crashing:
> - k3d - segfaults right after startup, when the gui appears
> - blender - same as above
> - wings3d - same as above
> - VariCAD (a commercial 3D CAD software) - works mostly, after disabling
>  some features
> - gwenview - crashes if I play a video file on full screen

These are 3D apps so they are handled by the mesa radeon 3D driver.
You should update to 7.6.1 when it's released there have been a number
of 3d driver bug fixes since mesa 7.6.  Alternately, You can try the
7.6 branch now.  I think there are PPAs with testing versions of mesa.

Alex