radeon on another computer -fifo errors encountered

[Jim Cornette]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> I was testing the latest xorg-x11 version on my laptop to ensure that
> there were no incorporated changes that would effect my computer when
> FC3 becomes a reality. I found that after awhile running, I'd get fifo
> errors and would have to either reset the computer or if lucky, just
> have to reboot or wait long enough for it to exit.
> 
> Anyway, attached to the xorg-x11 bug submitted for the radeon 7200 card
> is the results encountered with this later version radeon card.
> lspci shows this card as below. lspci -vvv results are attached to the
> bug report.
> 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility
> U1
> 
> This bug seemed to be triggered when using mozilla mail. Therefore, I'm
> using evolution to respond.
> 
> Jim
> 
> https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1384
> 
> 

Just as a further observation regarding this Evolution sent message from 
another account of mine, I have found that setting the color depth to 24 
thus disabling DRI on this version radeon will eventually cause lockups 
and/or refresh problems. Setting the depth down to 16 works most of the 
time. I did however have a problem with the system locking up during 
logging out of X. This needed a hard reset to escape, followed by a 
filesystem check and 1 inode correction needed for the disk.

At least the message cleared the moderator. (first attempt and using 
Evolution).
Regarding evolution, I haven't looked into configuring Evolution as a 
multi-threaded mailer yet. Without this feature enabled, great care 
needs to be taken to ensure the right mail account is used for sending 
the message out. I'd rather have multiple folders for each account and 
be able to originate a message and have it sent out from the account 
that has current focus. This is more visual and less with having to 
select the sending account from secondary, tertiary .... accounts. Also, 
with this approach, reading mail from specific accounts is much easier. 
Having a pool of mail from different accounts into one inbox leads to a 
lot of confusion in my view.

Jim

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