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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] radeonfb: (#2) Implement proper workarounds for PLL
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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 08:45:29 +1000
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> But it's not specific to X11; I've applied the patch you posted and the
> same symptoms occur for pure tty switching as well, the delay has decreased
> a bit (it's hard to measure, but around a second), but it's still rather
> annoying to work with.
> 
> Is it distinguishable which M6 models are buggy? I'm using my X31 for about
> a year now and have probably made some tens of thousands of switches without
> lockups, so presumably not all models cause lockups.

ATI hasn't been very precise about that unfortunately...

Ben.