Comment 38 for bug 744777

Re-hello,
I have tested this AMILO Li1718 laptop with Ubuntu 12.04 and two new upstream kernels.
This laptop kept crashing no matter what kernel I booted with, BUT IT WORKED VERY WELL after I installed the "fglrx" or "fbdev" video drivers.

Test 1) FAILED.
 I tested Ubuntu 12.04 with these three kernels:
 vmlinuz-3.2.0-20-generic-pae (standard kernel in Ubuntu 12.04)

 And two upstream kernels from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.3-rc7-precise/
 vmlinuz-3.3.0-999-generic
 vmlinuz-3.3.0-999-generic-pae

 The video driver was the default "xserver-xorg-video-radeon".

 The laptop crashed (within half an hour) no matter which kernel I booted with.

 Please see listing of:
 dpkg -l | egrep "radeon"
 http://www.futuredesktop.com/amilo/dpkg.radeon

 lsmod.redeon
 http://www.futuredesktop.com/amilo/lsmod.radeon

 Xorg.0.log
 http://www.futuredesktop.com/amilo/Xorg.0.log.radeon
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Test 2) SUCCESS.
I booted with Ubuntu's standard vmlinuz-3.2.0-20-generic-pae kernel.
The kernel did not matter in this test.

Then I installed the "fglrx" driver which I suppose replaces the default radeon driver in Ubuntu.

[from wikipedia.org:
Fglrx is the name of the Linux display driver used for ATI Radeon and ATI FireGL family of video
adapters and stands for "FireGL and Radeon for X".]

The Laptop runs like a dream. It does not crash anymore.
I have tested it with very heavy load and various tasks in several hours and it simply runs and runs.

 Please see listing of:
 dpkg -l | egrep "radeon|fglrx"
 http://www.futuredesktop.com/amilo/dpkg.fglrx

 lsmod
 http://www.futuredesktop.com/amilo/lsmod.fglrx

 Xorg.0.log
 http://www.futuredesktop.com/amilo/Xorg.0.log.fglrx
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Test 3) SUCCESS.
I booted with Ubuntu's standard vmlinuz-3.2.0-20-generic-pae kernel.

Then I copied /etc/X11/xorg.conf.failsafe to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and rebooted.

This xorg.conf uses "fbdev" as video driver.

And the laptop runs very well this setting. I cannot make it crash.

 Please see:
 xorg.conf
 http://www.futuredesktop.com/amilo/xorg.conf

 dpkg -l | egrep "radeon|fglrx"
 http://www.futuredesktop.com/amilo/dpkg.fbdev

 lsmod
 http://www.futuredesktop.com/amilo/lsmod.fbdev

 Xorg.0.log
 http://www.futuredesktop.com/amilo/Xorg.0.log.fbdev
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This laptop has AMD/ATI Radeon Xpress 200M graphics chipset.

$ lspci -v | grep -i vga
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])