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[Fritz Hudnut <este.el.paz@xxxxxxxxx>]

"do you guys have this problem in 14.04.1?"

@wxl:

To answer that question, yes, the problem of the desktop freezing is
happening in my G4 iBook with 14.04.1 installed.

Opening web browser seems to freeze the desktop in and of itself.  I can
open the Terminal and run commands; but, for instance, last night I was
trying to "apport-collect 1058641" for the "radeon regression" bug . . .
each time the browser opened for me to give permissions on LP . . .
system froze.  Tried to log in to LP first and then run the Terminal
command, but, it brought me back to the browser anyway . . . back into
the ice.

System was installed using Boris/Adam's "agpmode=-1"that worked to clean
up the 14.10 GUI . . . and I've tried various flavors of "radeonfb" boot
parameters . . . problem continues.  Yesterday I ran "sudo Xorg
-configure" . . . and generated an xorg.conf file . . . it does show
"radeon" as the driver, along with a bunch of other stuff . . . rebooted
. . . no difference.

I had 14.04 installed before and I used the "video=radeonfb:
1024x768-32@60" params, and dragging windows was jerky and sluggish, no
revive from suspend . . . but it did "work" . . . did something change
for the worse in the kernel . . . or using agp mode gets me a better GUI
for resolution . . . but creates the freeze problem that was in 14.10 .
. . over in 14.04?  Don't know if shrinking down the xorg.conf file as
per Adam S's bug report will do anything, or, somehow trying to change
out of the "agp" stipulation . . . or doing a reinstall using the
radeonfb params would get around this rather serious problem as far as
using 14.04 goes????

F

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Title:
  PPC - GUI freezes except for mouse pointer

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  During the installation the computer freezes completely except for the
  mouse pointer.  And even that is stuck with whatever shape it happened
  to have at the time it froze.  The steps I have to cause the freeze
  are run Ubiquity to start the installation open a terminal, run
  Ubuntu-bug and let it launch Firefox.  It will freeze every time then.
  Even the consoles (ctrl-alt-f1 etc) are unavailable.  What kind of
  information can I collect and how?

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