Due to an influx of spam, we have had to impose restrictions on new accounts. Please see this wiki page for instructions on how to get full permissions. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Admin message
The migration is almost done, at least the rest should happen in the background. There are still a few technical difference between the old cluster and the new ones, and they are summarized in this issue. Please pay attention to the TL:DR at the end of the comment.
I don't know if I use UVD, but I don't think so (I guess this would require hw accelaration through gstreamer, but I don't have the corresponding packages installed).
flash plugin will use vdpau (and hence possibly UVD if you have the radeon vdpau driver installed) if you enable acceleration support in you adobe mms.cfg.
Now this is interesting:
Only compton and compiz are affected by this bug.
I tested it with Kwin and xfwm4 with compositing enabled but it just doesn't happen. Also this bug can only be reproduced once - after that I need to restart my PC to trigger it (relogin is not enough).
Nope, unfortunately it doesn't help :/
I also get the bug on other occasions e.g. when I leave the PC and meanwhile the screensaver starts, I mostly find my computer in in a frozen state when I come back and need to do a hard reset. My journal is spammed by those same error messages then, until the journal log is full and stops logging...
I do not notice any difference with the patch or without
2. In contrary to my prior statements this bug is reproducable on any DE (even openbox) and is independent of compositing being enabled or not (although my impression is that it's easier to reproduce with compositing enabled).
3. It's independent or VDPAU.
4. It happens on any flash video, even on low quality.
5. Apart from playing flash videos the bug also happens on other (random) occasions or when the screensaver is active.
6. The system mostly successfully recovers from the crash *unless* a video is played in fullscreen (same for screensavers).
7. Out of some reason, it only happens *once* every restart. After the crash, I can successfully use my system and watch videos without any further crashes.
8. It's extremely annoying. I switched to Windows for the time being.
Ok, I think the Heading is not really correct anymore. I'm on Linux 3.16.1 now and still get this misbehaviour even without watching yt videos (maybe because of some KDE effects).
It is extremely annoying and I basically cannot use Linux productively. In fact I am not even sure if this is a software issue. I also got some Problems on Windows with this card even though this is already my second one (from RMA).
This issue hasn't had any activity since 2019-11-19. The AMD driver stack changes rapidly and contains lots of shared code across products so it's possible that it has already been fixed. Please upgrade to a current stable kernel and userspace stack and try again. If you still experience this issue with the latest driver stack, please capture relevant logging and open a new issue referring back to this one.