fglrx, FC8 and BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 11s

[Julius Smith]

I just got a Radeon 4850 graphics card for my F8 system, and I ran
into this infinite-boot-loop problem.
(I'm running kernel 2.6.25.10-47.fc8.)

Oddly, I can work around the problem by booting first in single-user
mode, then exiting to run-level 5.
It also worked when I first installed the proprietary ATI driver
(version 8.501, downloaded just yesterday) by logging out (and not
rebooting).

Attempts to build for specific distributions (I tried Fedora/F9,
Fedora/F8, Fedora/FC6) all failed with the following message:

  error: %changelog entries must start with *

Julius

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo.msbb.uc.edu> wrote:
>   I tried downgrading the fglrx drivers on the problem
> x86_64 fedora 8 box by installing the source rpm for
> fglrx-kmod-8.476-1.8.04.lvn8.src.rpm and building the
> kmod-fglrx packages against the current kernel
> (2.6.24.5-85.fc8). While the fglrx 8.476 drivers worked
> fine against the 2.6.24.4-64 kernel (which I can no
> longer find to download), the current kernel still
> has the black screen and reboots against these
> drivers. Does anyone know if an archive for the older
> fedora kernel updates so I can regress back to the
> 2.6.24.4-64 kernel until this issue is fixed?
>                Jack
>
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