F10 freezes when running glxgears

Konstantin Svist fry.kun at gmail.com
Sun Dec 7 07:56:17 UTC 2008


Linuxguy123 wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 02:11 -0800, Konstantin Svist wrote:
>   
>> I just built a new system and installed F10-KDE from the Live CD.
>> The CD refused to boot into full graphical/install mode so I used text
>> install.
>>
>> It looks like the system now freezes when there are certain graphical
>> applications being run.
>> glxgears always makes the system freeze. I'm sure there are others, but
>> this one is easiest to test.
>>
>> Interesting tidbits:
>> * glxgears runs smoothly for a second or two before the freeze.
>> * there's a bit of very faint high-pitched whining (apparently from my
>> video card) while glxgears is running. Not sure if that's normal. Never
>> had problems with this card before, though.
>> * SysRq/REISUB doesn't work. I've tested it without the freeze and it
>> works like a charm, then.
>>
>> Hardware:
>> Q6600
>> Asus P5N7A-VM
>> ATI X800 GT (X800PRO)
>>
>> There's no xorg.conf, X automatically recognizes everything. According
>> to Xorg.0.log, ati/radeon driver is used. I've tried creating xorg.conf
>> with system-config-display (no effect), and tried setting it to radeonhd
>> (my videocard is not supported by it).
>> Can't try fglrx, as it's not available yet...
>>
>>
>> What is the next step, if there is one?
>>     
>
> run glxinfo and report the result to the group
>
>   

Here it is


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