Bug#646376: xserver-xorg-video-ati: Massive screen corruption in few hours after login

Mon Oct 24 06:56:57 PDT 2011

reassign 646376 linux-2.6
forwarded 646376 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40221
kthxbye

Valentyn Pavliuchenko wrote: 
> I have ATI Cayman (Radeon HD 6790). When working with a PC for for an hour I
> got corruption of different parts of screen (like windows captions, menus,
> whole windows, window shadows, etc.). The corruption looks like using
> uninitializaed memory instead of textures. After reboot everything is ok.

See the upstream bug report referenced above. Looks like it's finally
about to be fixed.

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