Comment 18 for bug 459961

Similar problem here with Dell Inspiron 5100 and Google Earth.
I was going to file this under bug #459153 but since that was marked as duplicate of this one, I'll just leave it here. After this crash, the system becomes either completely unresponsive or pretty much unusable, and cannot even be shut down properly. celestia also causes the warning to appear but it does not hang the system. I do not see any problem with /usr/lib/xscreensaver/hyperspace though. Please let me know if any more information is needed.

user@abacus:~$ uname -a
Linux abacus 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:04:26 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
user@abacus:~$ lspci -nn | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] [1002:4c57]
user@abacus:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log|grep RAM
(II) RADEON(0): Detected total video RAM=32768K, accessible=65536K (PCI BAR=131072K)
(--) RADEON(0): Mapped VideoRAM: 32768 kByte (64 bit DDR SDRAM)
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
user@abacus:~$ glxinfo | grep renderer
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R100 (RV200 4C57) 20090101 AGP 4x x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL
user@abacus:~$ celestia
kbuildsycoca running...
render path: 1
user@abacus:~$ *********************************WARN_ONCE*********************************
File radeon_tcl.c function radeon_run_tcl_render line 499
Rendering was 604 commands larger than predicted size. We might overflow command buffer.
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user@abacus:~$ googleearth
user@abacus:~$ *********************************WARN_ONCE*********************************
File radeon_tcl.c function radeon_run_tcl_render line 499
Rendering was 421 commands larger than predicted size. We might overflow command buffer.
***************************************************************************
drmRadeonCmdBuffer: -22. Kernel failed to parse or rejected command stream. See dmesg for more info.
Google Earth has caught signal 11.

We apologize for the inconvenience, but Google Earth has crashed.
 This is a bug in the program, and should never happen under normal
 circumstances. A bug report and debugging data have been written
 to this text file:

    /home/user/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-4b089fb9.txt

Please include this file if you submit a bug report will to Google.

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