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hoschi

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From: Ulm (Germany)

Registered: 2008-11-03

Posts: 458

Testers needed with a Radeon 5xxx/Evergreen

Hello!
Since some time I'm facing this bug with my Acer Timeline 3820TG. What I know is, that this problem doesn't depend on my configuration or distribution, because a beta of Fedora 16 (Live-Environment) booted from USB-Thumbdrive is affected in the same way. I also know, that a Radeon 4670 is not affected. So I assume this is a specifig bug of the Evergreen-Cards (Mobility only?). I need your help! Please try to reproduce this issue!

Requirements:
Software: Gnome-Shell and a WebKit based browser e.g. Epiphany or Midori
Hardware: AMD Radeon 5xxx/Evergreen, driver from Linux with KMS enabled

Steps to reproduce:
1. close all applications, and invoke sync on a terminal
2. optional, enable MagicSysRq # sysctl -w kernel.sysrq="1" (shouldn't help)
3. visit the website [url=http://piratpix.com/bpt2011.1/index.html[/url]piratpix.com (Images from a federal convent of german pirate-party)[/url] and open some of the thumbnails by clicking on it
4. If you are affected your system should completely freeze! Even REISUB shouldn't help.
5. Switch off power! Reboot.

If you use this hardware and you are affected/not affected, please post here or on the bug-report on freedesktop.
Thank you very much

Hoschi

PS: If you don't have Gnome3 running with Gnome-Shell or running on proprietary Catalyst-Drivers, you can use the current Beta of Fedora
http://fedoraproject.org/de/get-prerelease

Just download the iso-file and put it on a USB-Thumbdrive/SDCard with # dd if=file.iso of=/dev/sd*
Remember, this will delete all other information stored on the thumbdrive or sd-card.
Boot up the live-system and choose "Add/Remove Software" -> Select Epiphany and load the website.