Bug#852003: Video freezes with xserver-xorg-video-radeon-7.8

[Victor Leschuk <vleschuk@gmail.com>]

I confirm: with

xserver-xorg-core                      2:1.19.1-4
xserver-xorg-video-radeon              1:7.8.0-1+b1

the problem is gone.
On 01/21/2017 10:46 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On 21/01/17 02:11 AM, Victor Leschuk wrote:
> > Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> >
> > Version: 7.8.0-1+b1
> >
> > Hello, after upgrading to version 7.8 of xserver-xorg-video-radeon I
> > experienced multiple freezes of video during playing netflix via chrome,
> > launching full-screen video games, etc. The symptoms are always the
> > same: video freezes, sound continues playing, switching to console works
> > fine and allows to kill -9 frozen application.
> >
> > Downgrading to 7.7.1-1 (and xorg from 1.19 to 1.18.4-2) from
> > http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20160916T045559Z/ solves the
> > situation.
> Sounds like bug #846779 / #850940, fixed in xserver-xorg-core 2:1.19.1-1
> or newer.

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Best Regards,
Victor