the radeon driver freezes too often

[mimine]

Hi,

I think there is a bug in the radeon driver in fossapup64.
My video card freezes very often.
It never happened on bionicpup64.

Anyone has this experience ?

Thanks

[bigpup]

Explain exactly what is happening when you say the video card is freezing?

Have you done the Fossapup64 9.5 update using Quickpet->Info->Fossapup updates?
Rebooted, updating the save, so these changes are now being used?

Try turning off compositor and see if that has any affect.
The display of information, on the right side of the desktop.
JWMDesk has a control for it.
See if that helps.

If you have done any updates to the Pale Moon browser.
Need to make sure you have the latest version.

[mimine]

Explain exactly what is happening when you say the video card is freezing?

Have you done the Fossapup64 9.5 update using Quickpet->Info->Fossapup updates?
Rebooted, updating the save, so these changes are now being used?

Try turning off compositor and see if that has any affect.
The display of information, on the right side of the desktop.
JWMDesk has a control for it.
See if that helps.

If you have done any updates to the Pale Moon browser.
Need to make sure you have the latest version.

all done and tried.
back to bionicpup, no freezes.

[bigpup]

Explain exactly what is happening when you say the video card is freezing?

[mimine]

Explain exactly what is happening when you say the video card is freezing?

The card freezes and restarts and there are lots of error logs.
It doesn't come from the card, I tried in bionic or windows, and all is fine.
Anyway, you need to debug the kernel driver to find the exact origin ... or update the driver to another version...
I gonna stay in bionic.

[bigpup]

there are lots of error logs.

So, what is in these logs?

What is the computer?
Make and model?
What is the graphics card specific model?

[mimine]

there are lots of error logs.

So, what is in these logs?

What is the computer?
Make and model?
What is the graphics card specific model?

the logs say the card freezed for some seconds and that it comes from the "radeon" module. For more details, I am not going back to fossapup anymore because I am tired of the freezings and it's a very bad experience.

Mother board is a Gigabyte.
CPU is an Athlon dual core.
My video card is a Radeon HD 4550 .

Are you going to test with your radeon cards and debug the kernel code and drivers ?
If you find a solution by testing radeon cards, or find a better driver ?? Please let us know.

Anyway, I am back to bionicpup.
Thanks for the help

[bigpup]

I do not have or use ATI/AMD Radeon hardware.
So I cannot provide any testing or troubleshooting of Radeon software.

All I can do is offer information on what others have done to fix ATI/AMD hardware issues.

But I guess this topic is closed for doing any other troubleshooting.

[LateAdopter]

I expect it is the long standing problem with Fossapup64 that its base SFS and A-drive are compressed with a 512k block size. Low end processors seem to choke on this. The GPU may only be a victim.

e.g. There have been various reports of problems running Palemoon from the A-drive.

If that is the case, the solution is to re-squash the SFSs with a smaller block size.

Alternatively you could try the Imppup Alpha that doesn't have a separate A-Drive so it's more like Bionicpup. Its base SFS has a 256k block size.