So is this bug fixed...?
How do I check it?
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[KMS] please cherry-pick fix for Radeon RS4xx cards
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557611
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There is a fix for this bug. It is in the so called 'upstream'. And it
will depend on the people responsible/involved in the Lucid release
(Tormod in this case I guess) to actually have this fix in Ubuntu
itself.
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[KMS] please cherry-pick fix for Radeon RS4xx cards
Seems the commit in upstream which is referred to here is this:
commit f95df9ca6896978108201a77422a1ae2cdc595ec
Author: Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com
Date: Sun Mar 21 14:02:25 2010 -0400
drm/radeon/kms: never treat rs4xx as AGP
RS4xx+ IGP chips use an internal gart, however,
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Medium
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[KMS] Radeon RS4xx cards miss recognised as AGP capable
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557611
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Tormod, good thing to subscribe me to the bug :)
as for the fix, the fix does work correctly. I tested this on the laptop
affected by it by applying the patch manually.
With the note that the first fix that was posted by Alex did had a typo in it
(a small but crucial one)
the correct patch was
I would like to add btw, that the laptop did still suffer from this bug
(which became visible as soon as this bug was resolved):
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/linux/+bug/509273?comments=all
so for this videocard to work correctly also that patch will have to be
applied.
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