[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-ati 6.7.196

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 17:31 +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> On Monday 12 of November 2007, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > Another RC release.
> >
> > fixes/new features:
> > - cursor related hangs
> > - LVDS fixes
> > - support for new DDC type
> > - bios/dock/lvds hw state fixes
> 
> On my setup (linux 2.6.24rc2, xserver 1.4 [1], mesa 7.0.2, ati driver 6.7.196, 
> thinkpad z60m with ati radeon mobility x300) I can easily hang X in a very 
> weird way.
> 
> Going to http://www.tmmb.pl/portal/ with opera (9.5 beta in my case) or 
> konqueror (kde 3.8.5) (but not firefox) makes X hang. Can't switch vt, 
> alt+cltr+backspace doesn't kill X server.

[...]

> With older ati driver releases I also had such occasional lockups but
> these were very rare.

It would be great if you could try and isolate the change that
introduced the problem with git-bisect then.


> [1] are there any fixes on 1.4.1 branch that could be important for
> the problem?

Possibly, in particular if you're using EXA.


If neither of the above helps, please provide the full xorg.conf and
Xorg.0.log files.


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