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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Johannes Neugschwentner, thank you for reporting this
and helping make Ubuntu better.

As per https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/H97IPLUS/HelpDesk_Download/ an
update to your computer's buggy and outdated BIOS is available (2604).
If you update to this following
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate does it change anything?

If it doesn't, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output of the following terminal command:
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date

For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette
.

Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so
posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful. As well, you don't
have to create a new bug report.

Once the BIOS is updated, if the problem is still reproducible, and the
information above is provided, then please mark this report Status New.
Otherwise, please mark this as Invalid.

Thank you for your understanding.

** Tags added: bios-outdated-2604

** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Xorg freeze

Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Neither the proprietery nor the open source driver work well for my
  ATI graphics card.

  The OS driver is the better choice, as it crashes about twice a day and that's it ...
  Crashes = strange patterns filling the screen plus X crashing (Keyboard combinations don't have effect anymore I think ... tried to quit my code editor with alt+f4 which should have closed all sourcefiles I was working on, still some of them were scrambled after reboot)

  The proprietary driver works well for some time, then brings on all kinds of artifacts, displaying old (buffered) parts of windows where they aren't etc., for example on mouse scrolling ... unusable really
  The Troubleshooting guide says something to check and by trial n error fix this in the BIOS by trying all AGP APERTURE SIZE settings ... well, I ain't got no AGP, I got the new stuff (ahemmm ... forget the name ...)
  Also, I read it doesn't work with the new kernel of Ubuntu Wily ... so I guess I'm in luck I switched back in time.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
  Package: xorg 1:7.7+7ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-16.19-lowlatency 4.2.3
  Uname: Linux 4.2.0-16-lowlatency x86_64
  .tmp.unity.support.test.0:
   
  ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,staticswitcher,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,dbus]
  CompositorRunning: compiz
  CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
  CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Mon Oct 26 12:42:14 2015
  DistUpgraded: 2015-10-23 23:59:32,729 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
  DistroCodename: wily
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
  GpuHangFrequency: Several times a day
  GpuHangReproducibility: Seems to happen randomly
  GpuHangStarted: Since before I upgraded
  GraphicsCard:
   Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Bonaire XTX [Radeon R7 260X/360] [1002:6658] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Device [1682:7260]
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-11-21 (338 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.2)
  MachineType: ASUS All Series
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.2.0-16-lowlatency root=UUID=72fb5ab9-1811-4038-a327-f02734b8adbb ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: xorg
  Symptom: display
  SystemImageInfo: Error: command ['system-image-cli', '-i'] failed with exit code 2:
  Title: Xorg freeze
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-10-24 (2 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 06/13/2014
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: 2001
  dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
  dmi.board.name: H97I-PLUS
  dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
  dmi.board.version: Rev X.0x
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr2001:bd06/13/2014:svnASUS:pnAllSeries:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnH97I-PLUS:rvrRevX.0x:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
  dmi.product.name: All Series
  dmi.product.version: System Version
  dmi.sys.vendor: ASUS
  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.2+15.10.20151015-0ubuntu1
  version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.64-1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 11.0.2-1ubuntu4
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 11.0.2-1ubuntu4
  version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.17.2-1ubuntu9
  version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.9.2-1ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.5.0+git20150819-0ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20150808-0ubuntu4
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.11-1ubuntu3
  xserver.bootTime: Mon Oct 26 12:28:10 2015
  xserver.configfile: default
  xserver.errors:
   
  xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
  xserver.version: 2:1.17.2-1ubuntu9
  xserver.video_driver: radeon

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