X locks up after a random time

Anne Wilson annew at kde.org
Sun Jan 4 08:27:23 UTC 2009


On Saturday 03 January 2009 23:10:30 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > This is an ATi X600 graphics card.  At first I had the OSS ati driver,
> > then I added flgrx in case I was trying to do something that really
> > needed acceleration.  Not being a gamer, I have little experience of
> > using graphics acceleration.
>
> Then what you're seeing is most likely a bug in the fglrx driver. I'd
> suggest reinstalling your GNU/Linux to be sure to get rid of all traces of
> it.
>
> The X600 actually has working acceleration in the Free Software drivers.
>
Just one problem with that, Kevin.  I installed the fglrx driver *because* I 
was seeing this problem.  IOW, it was happening with the free driver only 
installed.

Anne
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