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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