Comment 136 for bug 16873

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Robert Knight (robertknight) wrote :

> but the fix itself is a simple patch that could easily be applied to dapper version of the driver

The Xorg 7.1 code looks quite different from the 7.0 code to me. Anyhow, a stable version of the Xorg 7.0 ati driver which includes the memory map fixes has been published upstream (version 6.5.8.1). I would really appreciate it if that could be made available for Ubuntu Dapper. Seriously, I will be willing to make a charitable donation a developer's beer fund.

Can I also request that the importance of this bug be raised. This can lock up affected PCs (of which there are many in existence) frequently.

I am using Kubuntu Dapper as a platform for KDE development and something in the latest Qt release seems to trigger this lockup very frequently.

Switching to EXA accelerations helps - although EXA support seems to have many rough edges in the X.org 7.0, so much so that using it for day to day desktop work can be a little painful.