Re: System freeze with ATI

On Tuesday 06 January 2009 21:51:48 Giuseppe Fuggiano wrote:
2009/1/6 Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>:
I have been running since the pre-beta and haven't had an issue yet, on
my Acer "Extensa" using ATI drivers, so you can assume it's not some
general defect hitting all ATI laptops. I doubt it promises more than
that, however

Thanks for replying.

If I use Ubuntu with open source drivers, the same issue occurs. But
switching to the proprietary drivers everything works fine, with no
freeze. I am unsure to try fglrx in Fedora right now, because I've
heard that fglrx isn't supported with the current Xorg.

What video card do you have, exactly?

Maybe you're in luck! :-) About half an hour ago I wrote up
http://userbase.kde.org/GPU-Performance#Desktop_Effects_causes_random_freezes

based on what I was told to try. I've been working now for almost 11 hours
with that fix and not had a single freeze. Before that they were random, as
you say, but fairly frequent. This laptop has an ATi Radeon Mobility X600.

Anne

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