I have the following configuration: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz ASUSTeK P8P67 Motherboard ATI Technologies Inc Redwood PRO [Radeon HD 5500 Series] video card. 8GB of RAM Debian 6.0.2 (squeeze) AMD64
I have two problems with fglrx. (The first listed is definitely worse.) 1. After fresh install of Debian 6.0.1 back in April I installed fglrx driver found in Synaptic. I accepted a minimal xorg.conf created upon installation, and the system was running without any freezes until recently. All at a sudden a couple of weeks ago, I started experiencing hard freezes after switching a user: a black screen without a cursor, no response to keyboard, no way to get out but hard reset (power off button). It does not freeze every time but after several user switches. And it seems to get worse ever day. It feels like the system is steadily degrading. Last days I had system frozen at least a couple of times a day. No traces in logs. I get back to open source Radeon driver and freezes have gone. But the difference in performance is drastic: 9027.995 FPS with fglrx and only around 900-1200 FPS with open source Radeon. (Plus I could not make compiz to work with open source driver.) I spend a couple of days on google but only found outdated information. The most recent was dated year 2008. 2. Another problem using fglrx was, mouse cursor become invisible after ever single time user switched. Right clicking on a desktop, selecting any menu option to open any window restored the mouse cursor visible. This problem does not exist with open source Radeon driver. Mouse cursor never disappears while switching a user. I found a lot of links on google but neither of them is similar to my case, when the problem is resolved by going back to Radeon driver. People usually loose the mouse cursor upon login and for ever. I've not found any one relating this problem to fgrx driver. Can anybody help me with either suggestion or a link to something helpful, please? Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/iu96gv$nh4$1...@dough.gmane.org