Bug#479870: xserver-xorg-video-ati: Frequent system lockups since upgrade

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Arren Lex <arrenlex at gmail.com> wrote:
> Subject: xserver-xorg-video-ati: Frequent system lockups since upgrade
>  Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati
>  Version: 1:6.8.1~git20080417.c5d62fa0-1
>  Severity: normal
>
>  *** Please type your report below this line ***
>  I run lenny (testing), which has recently gotten the new 1:6.8.0-1 pacakage.
>  Since then, every game of Frets on Fire ends with total system lockup -- no
>  RSEIUB, no SSH, no switching to VT, no capslock light; I have to use
>  the reset button.
>  This has never happened to me before; the driver version prior to this always
>  performed perfectly no matter how long I played. Now, sometimes it
>  takes 10 seconds,
>  sometimes it takes 30 minutes, but it will freeze.
>
>  I tried the experimental package to see if the problem was fixed, but
>  it was not.
>
>  It occurs in either exa or xaa mode. The xorg.conf below uses exa, to
>  use xaa I simply
>  comment out the unindented exa lines in the device section.

Do either of the following options help?

Option "AGPMode" "1"
Option "BusType" "PCI"

Also, this issue could be mesa or drm related.  what versions where
you running previously?

Alex