Comment 22 for bug 36596

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Daniel F Moisset (arnetsucks) wrote : Re: system freeze after clicking task manager trash icon in "pan" newsreader

I'm watching into the same problem for a Dell C610 laptop with a 16MB Radeon Mobility M6 LY. I have had a crash since upgrading to Dapper yesterday, and artifacts in the buttons (mostly vertical or horizontal dashed lines at regular intervals). The artifacts appear consistently on the "Help" and "Close" buttons of the update-manager, or in the "Help", "Cancel" and "OK" of the network-admin. Moving the mouse over the buttons redisplays them correctly.

The system worked previously with no problems in Breezy before the upgrade. After the crash no traces of it are left at the system logs, or Xorg log. No response to SysRq either.

I seem to have no glx problems (gl screensavers work fine). I lowered my display depth to 16bpp to see if it helps with the crashes. However, the "AGPMode" setting didn't help solving the artifacts.