On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:02 AM, fuzzyBSc < benjamincarl...@soundadvice.id.au> wrote:
> Just a quick update. > > I am still running Jaunty at the present time. I'm pretty busy at the > current moment and haven't had time to upgrade to Karmic. I have been > working through the AGP modes in xorg.conf. I am up to 4 (tried 1 & 2, > but not 8). This has been more stable for me, which is to say that it > has been failing just as often but not as badly. At settings of 1 and 2 > the whole machine would be unusable until a restart. I could ssh in > (very slowly) and issue the reboot command, but nothing else helped. > With a setting of four I get the same kind of lockups, but occasionally > can Ctrl+Alt+F1 my way out and restart gdm. If that doesn't work (often > the keyboard is completely unresponsive in this case, ie no numlock > response) I have been pretty reliably been able to ssh in. A restart of > gdm has been all that I have required to get back up and running at AGP > mode 4. > > This suggests to me that 4 may be the right mode, but that an underlying > problem still exists with the driver. I'll have a go at Karmic when I > get a chance. Sorry about the delays. > > > You problem is that you have enabled DFS (DownloadFromScreen) which is not stable in AGP mode. You can try to disable UTS/DFS in xorg.conf device section. Details can be found from exa man page. -- [RV280] glyph corruption and occasional X lockup on radeon 9200 se https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/373968 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs