Re: New version of fglrx broke my system
Gabriel Parrondo wrote:
>
> I've been googling for hours trying to figure out how to solve this
> problem that arised from the last upgrade:
>
> I use lenny and the fglrx driver. With the last upgrade all fglrx
> packages were upgraded from version 8.4.1 to 8.5.1. As with every fglrx
> upgrade, I used m-a to rebuild the kernel modules.
>
> After that, "Switching user" from gnome (GDM) crashed the system to the
> point that not even sysrq would work.
> Other procedures, such as stopping gdm and starting it again had the
> same results (restarting it didn't).
>
> The worst part is that there's nothing in the logs, it just crashes the
> whole system silently.
>
> I tried the following stuff with no success:
> - Purging every fglrx package, reinstall and rebuild modules.
> - Disabling composite in xorg.conf.
> - Building xorg.conf from scratch (with fglrx-control)
> - Use the vesa driver: This actually solved the Switch User problem, but
> created a lot of others.
>
> My video card is an ATI Radeon HD2400 (which means that, until the
> radeonhd driver is ready, I have to stick with fglrx).
>
>
> Anyway, I just downgraded to 8.4.1 and am able to switch users again
> (with some limitations, but that's another story). If anyone has any
> clue on what the problem could be, please let me know.
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
Hi Gabriel,
I'm also using Lenny and have an ATI Radeon 9550 graphics card. I use the
proprietary drivers from the ATI website. A couple of days ago I downloaded
version 8.6 of the ATI installer. I unpacked the fglrx debs from that using
the --buildpkg switch and installed them and then ran m-a to build and
install the module (I had removed the old one first). It installed with no
problem and after rebooting (yes, I have to do this; starting and stopping
the the Xserver doesn't get the new driver working correctly) everything
has been working fine.
I'm a bit confused about version 8.5.1 of the driver. The one I installed
was released about 2 days ago and (according to Catalyst) I have version
8.50.3 of the driver installed. Where did you download the driver from?
Cheers,
Jonathan
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