[elrepo] Fglrx package hangs my computer?

[Nikki Locke]

Further to this, I can now report that it is working.

As instructed in the comments to the bug report at 
http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=100, I uninstalled the old 
proprietary fglrx driver by running the command:

/usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh
and rebooting.

It might be a good idea to advise people installing the el repo 
fglrx package that they need to uninstall the old package first, 
with instructions how. I suspect many people will be like me, and 
have installed it from the downloaded package, without knowing how 
to uninstall it.

Nikki

Nikki Locke wrote:
> I got round to installing the fglrx el-repo package yesterday - 
> I've been hoping for an el-repo version of this that will run on 
> any kernel for ages, as I'm fed up with having to manually patch 
> the ATI-provided one for each new, incompatible kernel release, 
> and compile it twice before it works.
> 
> However, yesterday my computer hung. The mouse cursor still 
> worked, but clicking on stuff did nothing, and the keyboard did 
> nothing either (I tried Ctrl-Alt-Arrow to go to different 
> desktop, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to restart X, Ctrl-Alt-Del - 
> nothing).
> 
> I put it down to cosmic rays, and hit the reset button.
> 
> Today, while trying to write my Christmas emails, it hung again. 
> I reset again, and a few minutes later it hung again. I reset, 
> uninstalled the fglrx driver, recompiled the ATI-supplied one, 
> and restarted. Everything has been fine since.
> 
> I realise this is not a proven bug (it might be coincidence), and 
> I haven't provided enough detail. However, I'm not sure what 
> detail I should provide for a proper bug report, or whether this 
> is the right place to report it. Suggestions welcome.



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Nikki Locke, Trumphurst Ltd.  PC & Unix consultancy & programming
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