Re: [o-info] Linux box freezes when running O v11.0.0

From: Atro Tossavainen (atossava@cc.helsinki.fi)
Date: Mon Feb 19 2007 - 01:27:11 CST


> > * I am now using an ATI RadeonX600 graphics card, 256MByte, proprietary 
> > driver v8.30.03 (before I always worked with Nvidia)
> 
> This is your problem. Replace the ATI card with an nvidia or use the 
> xorg radeon module rather than fglrx. The problem is you won't have DRI 
> acceleration with the radeon driver. Upgrading fglrx won't help either.

Seconded.  The ATI proprietary driver has had (and probably continues
to have) amazing bugs that just kill the whole machine (when doing Very
Unusual And Unexpectable things such as going to text mode with Ctrl-Alt-
Fsomething and coming back with Alt-F7).

Not that I like the nVidia proprietary driver much either, but at least
showstoppers don't seem to be quite such a frequent occurrence with it.

I've had good experiences with the Xi Graphics driver, but unfortunately
it's not supported on anything from nVidia, only on outdated stuff from
ATI, and just about the only modern things it supports are Matrox...

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