Bug#613363: Update

[Josselin Mouette]

reassign 613363 xserver-xorg-video-radeon
thanks

Le mercredi 23 février 2011 à 17:07 +0100, susulic at gmail.com a écrit : 
> Update: the bug doesn't seem to be related to whether the account is  
> password-protected or passwordless, but to the FIRST account logged on  
> after a fresh boot. If, say, user1 logs on first, and then the gdm  
> switcher is used to log onto/switch into other accounts, the bug is not  
> triggered until we try to switch to user1 again. Our temporary  
> workaround consists in creating a dummy account and always loggging  
> onto that account first, then switching out (not logging out) of it and  
> never switching into it again. Unfortunately, this only seems to help  
> about 75% of the time; meaning that roughly 25% of the time, the bug is  
> triggered regardless, simply by switching between other accounts.
> 
> Also, apparently related, switching to a virtual terminal by pressing,  
> say, ctrl-alt-F3, ALWAYS locks up the machine.
> 
> I'm trying to describe the bug as well as I possibly can, but it's  
> somewhat erratic and hard to pinpoint...

This definitely looks like a bug in either the driver or the kernel.
Although I have a RS690 too, and user switching works flawlessly.

Please send the output of "/usr/share/bug/xserver-xorg/script 3>&1" to
the bug report.

Thanks,
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