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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #195051
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 195051

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billythegates (mfittko) wrote : Re: X freezes when Compiz is enabled on ATI Radeon Mobility

I just tried to follow the step in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingXorg, but when I try to restart X it freezes, and when I pgrep Xorg, I get two process numbers. If I try to attach process No 1, I get the following error message:

This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) attach 5488
Attaching to program: /usr/bin/Xorg, process 5488
warning: process 5488 is a cloned process
/build/buildd/gdb-6.7.1/gdb/linux-nat.c:979: internal-error: linux_nat_attach: Assertion `pid == GET_PID (inferior_ptid) && WIFSTOPPED (status) && WSTOPSIG (status) == SIGSTOP' failed.
A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
further debugging may prove unreliable.

If I try to attach the second process ID, the computer freezes again!

I have to add to my previous post, that when I log off and try to log back in, the computer seems to freeze once the audio gets initialized, because I hear a freezing typical audio loop (just like "zzzzzz"). I don'T know if this helps.

Do I just have to wait for the release of Hardy, or is this a problem related to the proprietary fglrx driver? Is this a problem of my installation, or did you have suimilar problems on your machines running hardy+fglrx(+ati mobility radeon graphics)???