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[Pauli <suokkos@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:02 AM, fuzzyBSc <
benjamincarlyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just a quick update.
>
> I am still running Jaunty at the present time. I'm pretty busy at the
> current moment and haven't had time to upgrade to Karmic. I have been
> working through the AGP modes in xorg.conf. I am up to 4 (tried 1 & 2,
> but not 8). This has been more stable for me, which is to say that it
> has been failing just as often but not as badly. At settings of 1 and 2
> the whole machine would be unusable until a restart. I could ssh in
> (very slowly) and issue the reboot command, but nothing else helped.
> With a setting of four I get the same kind of lockups, but occasionally
> can Ctrl+Alt+F1 my way out and restart gdm. If that doesn't work (often
> the keyboard is completely unresponsive in this case, ie no numlock
> response) I have been pretty reliably been able to ssh in. A restart of
> gdm has been all that I have required to get back up and running at AGP
> mode 4.
>
> This suggests to me that 4 may be the right mode, but that an underlying
> problem still exists with the driver. I'll have a go at Karmic when I
> get a chance. Sorry about the delays.
>
>
> You problem is that you have enabled DFS (DownloadFromScreen) which is not
stable in AGP mode. You can try to disable UTS/DFS in xorg.conf device
section. Details can be found from exa man page.

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