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Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:58:25 +0000
From: David <david@unsolicited.net>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.33-rc1 - Weird hard hangs when rendering 'some' web-sites
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David wrote:
> Mine is a wired connection, so it seems unconnected with that. I've
> replaced the motherboard here and have had no further problems. There is
> now a configuration difference though as I've had to disable radeon kms
> (with radeon.modeset=0) for the new on-board graphics.
>
> My guess is that this is radeon related, and I'm going to set-up the old
> motherboard in a spare case & see what I can work out.
>   
I've just done some testing with the old motherboard, and I can
regularly hang the system solid while browsing. Applying
radeon.modeset=0 seems to stabilise it completely (at the cost of not
being able to use compiz).

So my issue is indeed radeon (using a discrete X300 (RV370) card).

Cheers
David