[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#506049: fglrx-driver: Very unstable

[Tony Houghton]

Package: fglrx-driver
Version: 1:8-7-3
Severity: normal


I used the attached patch to get the source package to compile with
kernel 2.6.27.*. However, it's very unstable with my AMD780G/ATI HD3200
motherboard. The display often goes blank or freezes and needs a reboot,
and I've also had at least one kernel oops. Xine displays repeated
patterns instead of a picture when using the Xv driver; its OpenGL
driver works, but the display gets garbled if I switch to full screen
mode and back again until I reset it.

Is all this because 8-7-3 isn't really compatible with such a new
kernel, and a newer fglrx should fix it? Or is this sort of thing quite
typical of fglrx?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.6 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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