The patch that was cherry-picked for Bug #507148 " [lucid] desktop runs out of video memory on ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 " , needs to be reverted.
The upstream patch that was cherry-picked from https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26302 , was updated and merged in kernel .36 , which does not seem to cause this problem. The fix that was merged in kernel .36 is commit e376573f7267390f4e1bdc552564b6fb913bce76 ('drm/radeon: fallback to GTT if bo creation/validation in VRAM fails.'), and commit 2b66b50b12cabc05f05543e792d4c9c2465d5702 ('drm/radeon/kms: Fix retrying ttm_bo_init() after it failed once.') fixes up a problem of the fix in the BO creation path. ** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #26302 http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26302 -- [RV515] Guest session causes screen to flicker violently and session is unusable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/652934 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs