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 -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
