Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #195051
  2. Comment #119

Comment 119 for bug 195051

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kede (kede) wrote :

Is it really the right way to workaround this bug with quirks?

As far as I understand, a quirk changes the default behavior for a specific combination of hardware so that such notebook-models use a certain agp-mode by default.

For my acer this is AGP1x, other modes result in freezes or corrupted graphics. By default, Ubuntu selects AGP4x which is correct because it is the best mode supported by the hardware.
It supports AGP4x and runs fine with fastwrites enabled on Windows XP.

So the problem is not that Ubuntu selects an unsupported AGP mode, the problem is that the highest mode supported by the hardware does not work with Ubuntu.

Are there realy no hints where the real problem is?