Ubuntu
fglrx-installer package

  1. Bug #314600
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 314600

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Fabian A. Scherschel (fabsh) wrote : Re: fglrx versions newer than 8.543 cause system hang and panic

I can confirm this on Mythbuntu Intrepid. Rescue boot & xfix works for me but as soon as I use Jockey to load the fglrx driver, the system will hang at the next reboot before loading GDM with a black screen, totally unresponsive system and my monitor telling me it detected an unsupported video mode.

If I use Synaptic to roll back to 8.543 or try an older kernel, the same thing happens. I can only use the Radeon driver at this point. Funnily, I did the update weeks ago including reboot and all was fine. This problem appeared out of thin air two nights ago on the running Mythbox. I did not reboot or even log out of X. I have now rolled back the fglrx driver, the kernel module, depmod and even Xorg itself to the versions that came with Intrepid and I still get the same symptoms.

System is a Dell XPS 210 with Radeon X1300 card and a Dell 22" monitor.