Bug#852003: Video freezes with xserver-xorg-video-radeon-7.8

[Michel Dänzer]

On 21/01/17 02:11 AM, Victor Leschuk wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> 
> Version: 7.8.0-1+b1
> 
> Hello, after upgrading to version 7.8 of xserver-xorg-video-radeon I
> experienced multiple freezes of video during playing netflix via chrome,
> launching full-screen video games, etc. The symptoms are always the
> same: video freezes, sound continues playing, switching to console works
> fine and allows to kill -9 frozen application.
> 
> Downgrading to 7.7.1-1 (and xorg from 1.19 to 1.18.4-2) from
> http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20160916T045559Z/ solves the
> situation.

Sounds like bug #846779 / #850940, fixed in xserver-xorg-core 2:1.19.1-1
or newer.


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