[Bug 1635851] Re: When browsing Google Map's Satellite view in Chrome or Firefox the screen freezes and goes black, occasionally control is returned to user

@juergh this can be closed. I have not reproduced this for many years.

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Title:
When browsing Google Map's Satellite view in Chrome or Firefox the
screen freezes and goes black, occasionally control is returned to
user

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed

Bug description:
Affects Ubuntu 14.04.1, resolved 16.10

When viewing the satellite view in Google Maps with Google Chrome or
Firefox the screen will become unresponsive and then go black. This
occurs on other websites too but this is the most reproducible.
Occasionally the screen returns and control is given back to the user,
but often only the mouse works and desktop elements will not move
around the screen when clicked and dragged.

I have a Radeon 390x graphics card, a MSI Z97 Gaming 5 Motherboard and
am running Kubuntu 16.04.1 LTS. This is a dual boot device with
Windows 10 and have not seen any hardware issues in the Event Viewer.
I filed this log here as the file that appeared in the dmesg log is
part of the linux project
"/build/linux-R0TiM8/linux-4.4.0/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_object.c".

This is resolved when upgrading to Ubuntu 16.10 (uses kernel 4.8), so
perhaps the commit that resolves this is not backported to Ubuntu's
16.04.1's 4.4 kernel.

Bug I also filed on kernel.org's Bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177041

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