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  1. Bug #513950
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Comment 8 for bug 513950

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote : Re: [Bug 513950] Re: [lucid] xorg froze after disabled KMS and enabling compiz on ATI Radeon Mobility 7500

On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 18:08 +0000, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Hi Jamie,
>
> We're not going to have this fixed for Alpha 3. However, I took the
> matter of this bug up with David Airlie upstream, who told us we need to
> pull the latest DRM code from the .33 kernel in order to fix this bug
> and many like it. It seems a lot of kms stuff got rushed into .32 and
> is pretty buggy, especially with older or unusual hardware.
>
 Understood.

> One thing you could do for testing, would be to install and try Andy's
> drm backport and give me feedback on it:
>
> http://people.canonical.com/~apw/drm-backport-lucid/
>
I ended up using the one that he asked me to in bug LP: #507148. compiz
still crashed (see report).

Thanks for the follow up. :)

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