Re: [Visualpython-users] Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) installation/fix: WARNING!!

[Gary P. <gar...@gm...>]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Gary Pajer <gar...@gm...> wrote:

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>
> Without fail, after four or five successful runs of VPython scripts my
> system experiences file system corruption.
>
> I believe I am a victim of this bug on Ubuntu 9.10<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/474928>,
> which is indeed related to the dreaded Radeon Mobility 7500 graphics
> adapter.  Dreaded because this thing has way more than its share of
> problems, and ATI has set it adrift... no more driver updates...
>
> I report this because someone else might suffer from it, and come looking
> here for help.
>

A partial workaround is to downgrade libgl1-mesa-dri and libgl1-mesa-glx to
jaunty.
See http://www.ode2.com/?p=44
Prevents file system corruption, but renders incorrectly in some cases.