Not sure if this is exactly what I'm seeing but on hybrid-gpu systems (intel+fglrx), there are situations, where having fglrx loaded without actually being used by X is something one could want.
Power management for example.. without fglrx, the fan of a HP Pavilion dv7 laptop won't stop. With fglrx, the laptop in question is quiet: $ lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 6740 $ lsmod | egrep 'fglrx|i915' i915 451068 2 drm_kms_helper 40745 1 i915 fglrx 2434640 0 drm 184164 3 i915,drm_kms_helper i2c_algo_bit 13184 1 i915 video 18951 1 i915 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to fglrx-installer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/545257 Title: gnome-screensaver-gl-helper crashed with SIGSEGV in XF86DRIQueryVersion() To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/545257/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
