Bug 328389

Summary:	x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.13.0 and 6.13.1 are causing system freezes in combination with ATI Mobility Radeon 9600/9700
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jens Pelzetter <jens>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Output of emerge --info Output of lwhw

Description Jens Pelzetter 2010-07-15 13:02:11 UTC

After installing x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.13.0 my system freezes randomly after some time of working. After reinstalling x11-drivers/x86-video-ati-6.12.17 all works fine. 

Sometimes I was able to cause the crash with evince. After I started evince and tried to enlarge the Side Pane, the system freezed completely (even Magic Keys are not working).

Reproducible: Sometimes

Comment 1 Jens Pelzetter 2010-07-15 13:02:49 UTC

Created attachment 238883 [details]
Output of emerge --info

Comment 2 Jens Pelzetter 2010-07-15 13:03:16 UTC

Created attachment 238885 [details]
Output of lwhw

Comment 3 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2010-07-16 07:35:13 UTC

Please post dmesg and Xorg.0.log too. Ensure that you are not using any of the legacy framebuffer drivers (vesafb, uvesafb, radeonfb, ...)

Comment 4 Jens Pelzetter 2010-07-21 14:04:25 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> Please post dmesg and Xorg.0.log too. Ensure that you are not using any of the
> legacy framebuffer drivers (vesafb, uvesafb, radeonfb, ...)
> 

First, sorry that I've not responded earlier. After some days of testing it looks like that radeonfb was the cause for the error indeed.

After I removed radeonfb from the kernel I had no further system freezes.

Because of this, I mark this bug as invalid.