[ltp] Re: Success with fglrx 8.28.8?

[David Abrahams]

TNKS <0osz0s302@sneakemail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I sent a message with my Xorg.0.log attached earlier.  But I think it wasn't
> accepted because of the attachment, so I posted my log on pastebin.ca
> <http://pastebin.ca/151245>.
>
> Here's the description of my problem:
>
> With the latest ATI fglrx (8.28.8) on a Thinkpad T42 with the latest
> Debian-patched Sid linux kernel sources, when I shut down my X server, the
> whole system freezes, and sometimes it reboots too (actually shutting down
> services and all, which is surprising). This happens consistently upon
> shutting down X, and for now, that's the only time it seems to happen.
>  
> Maybe you know what's going wrong and how to help me get my system
> configured correctly with 8.28.8.  For now, I've reverted to the previous
> version of fglrx, which seems to work fine.

All I can say is that ATI's instructions don't point you at
http://tinyurl.com/o9f3o
(http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Dapper_Installation_Guide#Method_2:_Generating.2FInstalling_Ubuntu_packages_for_the_8.28.8_drivers_in_Ubuntu_Dapper_Manually)
and until I discovered that page with the help of an ATI employee, I
was totally lost.  I hope this helps.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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