Video problems on ATI notebooks with Lucid (Was: grub sees 2 out of 3 systems)

[Dotan Cohen]

On 3 May 2010 20:34, James Tappin <sjt at star.sr.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 3 May 2010 17:51:58 +0300
> Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> DC> I know of at least myself and four other users who cannot upgrade to
> DC> Lucid because of this issue:
> DC> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/537640
>
> Symptomatically this resembles a problem that I encountered with kernels
> around 2.6.8 to 2.6.12 or so. However that was definitely PPC-specific
> (the fix, which I adapted from an earlier 2.4.x patch that was on the
> internet, was enclosed within PBOOK related ifdefs). If it would be
> useful to see what was going on with that I might be able to track down
> the old bug reports (I don't recall if it was Debian or Ubuntu I was
> using at that time).
>

Similar in what way? I've never seen video "wavy" like this bug
causes. At least, not since I had to play with h- and v- sync on my
Commodore 128 about 20 years ago.

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