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Re: AMD Catalyst 11.4/11.5 issues

 

Shall we report these to Launchpad (or directly upstream)?

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 19:26, Authesserre Samuel <sauthess@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> All fullscreen 3D games seems to be impacted on natty (Xorg 1.10 with 11.4
> or 11.5 catalyst drivers).
>
> I have tried :
> -chromium-bsu (native)
> - supertuxkart (native)
> - starcraft 2  (with wine)
>
> If I remember well (I'm on debian right now so can' t do the test), I
> succeed to start supertuxkart in fullscreen mode if (and only if) I use the
> exact size of my screen (1366x768).
>
> I have tested with package embedded in natty (was 11.4 in pre release) and
> real 11.4 and real 11.5 installed directly with exe (no package generation
> as it do not works on 11.4 on my system and didn't try on 11.5...)
>
> Hope this clarify my tests.
>
> Regards,
>
> Le samedi 14 mai 2011 à 03:54 +0200, Steven a écrit :
>
> Ok, i've tried with extreme tux racer and I can confirm this happening
> when using discrete card.
>
> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 03:43, Steven <steven3k@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi can you tell me a 3D application that doesn't work for you?
>> I'll try to reproduce the problem.
>>
>> Also do you have any of the problems I mentioned?
>>
>> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 07:49, Authesserre Samuel <sauthess@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have this kind of problem...
>>>
>>> Each time I opened a 3D application in fullscreen, X crashs.
>>>
>>> I think it has something to deal with natty as 11.4 works on debian
>>> stable
>>> (I didn't try 11.5).
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Le vendredi 13 mai 2011 à 02:55 +0200, Steven a écrit :
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm experiencing these issues with both AMD Catalyst 11.4 and 11.5 and
>>> I wanted to know if someone else is seeing this:
>>>
>>> - When using the Intel card, sometimes the X server randomly crashes
>>> - When using AMD card trying to switch to a virtual terminal
>>> (ctrl+alt+F[1-6]) causes X server to restart. Repeating this freezes
>>> the display and you'll have to do an emergency reboot.
>>>
>>> I'm running ubuntu natty amd64.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
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