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lang2

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Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 383

ATI users: are your box stable?

Cause mine isn't and I think it is the proprietary driver. I'm running latest and greatest but my Arch box has crashed (hang) 7 times in the last 2 weeks! The reason I suspect the graphics module is that the box hang three times on xscreensaver and the rest when playing video with mplayer.

any input appreciated.

Thanks

Sigi

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From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,121

Re: ATI users: are your box stable?

I had some X server crashes (or more X-server-shutdowns) with the latest proprietary drivers (catalyst 8.3-2) I hope this gets better again. I don't want to go back to the older ones because of the "diagonal tearing of video"-problem...

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zodmaner

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Registered: 2007-07-11

Posts: 653

Re: ATI users: are your box stable?

Well... it is stable as long as I use the open source driver (radeon). With proprietary driver, my box experiences crashes and lock ups from time to time.

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vuboy

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From: Canada

Registered: 2008-03-04

Posts: 78

Re: ATI users: are your box stable?

x86_64 here using open source driver.
Prop driver hangs X every time I run glxgears, this happenes on Arch and Gentoo.

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lang2

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Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 383

Re: ATI users: are your box stable?

Good news to me then. I'll give the open source driver a try.

grandmasterb

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-03-12

Posts: 26

Re: ATI users: are your box stable?

yep. my Arch also crushed from time to time till i switched  to open source drivers:)

carlocci

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From: Padova - Italy

Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 368

Re: ATI users: are your box stable?

9550 here
No crashes at all with the closed driver.

thayer

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From: Vancouver, BC

Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,560

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Re: ATI users: are your box stable?

x1400 here, latest fglrx driver has been working fine...I can even suspend/resume flawlessly now.

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wyvern

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From: 'Old' Scottish/English border.

Registered: 2008-01-06

Posts: 70

Re: ATI users: are your box stable?

2400HD, and apart from the issue covered in another post (horizontal tearing) the closed drivers have always been stable; 3D apps, compositing (with xcompmgr), video playback all run without a hitch. I could always suspend and resume without the need for extra packages or fiddling

In comparison, the radeonHD drivers could never suspend/resume for me, and there was no 3D acceleration - only compositing support.

blu3ness

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From: Edmonton, Canada

Registered: 2007-12-28

Posts: 169

Re: ATI users: are your box stable?

using catalyst/fglrx/closed source or whatever you call it, fairly stable, doesn't crash, suspend/hibernate works. I have a radeon xpress200M (yeah it's pretty lame...) on my laptop

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nonx

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Registered: 2005-08-23

Posts: 10

Re: ATI users: are your box stable?

yeah, im using x2300 with fglrx(catalsyt-8.3) without problems
i can also suspend/hibernate without doing anything extra

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xbrunox

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From: Lisboa, Portugal

Registered: 2008-02-15

Posts: 21

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Re: ATI users: are your box stable?

X700 with radeon, works fine, no hang ups at all
Suspend and hibernate works grate too.

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synthead

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From: Seattle

Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,319

Re: ATI users: are your box stable?

+1 to the fglrx drivers, not a problem whatsoever.  I've used the TV-out portion of my girlfriend's card too and it worked fine, although the GUI couldn't disable the display.  Removed the configuration files and I was back to square one though

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lang2

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Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 383

Re: ATI users: are your box stable?

OK. I've switched to the Open source driver. Hasn't run long enough to tell though. Another question is: I can't seem to use the -vo xv option for mplayer. I added "VideoOverlay" "on" to xorg.conf but it didn't help either.

Thanks,

twiggy

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Registered: 2008-04-16

Posts: 14

Re: ATI users: are your box stable?

Ah, it wasnt just me.  My computer kept crashing (9550) when it used anything needing OpenGL (apart from glxgears) for longer than a minute or so.  Using the Open source drivers, all working well (so far).

Does anyone know why the closed source drivers break everything?

Last edited by twiggy (2008-04-16 14:52:29)

serrghi

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From: Bergen, NO

Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 100

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Re: ATI users: are your box stable?

im using radeon mobility x1600 with fglrx, works great.

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mianka

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From: BE LEUVEN

Registered: 2006-05-30

Posts: 201

Re: ATI users: are your box stable?

Three computers happily working with ATI+opensource drivers;never succeeded in installing the proprietary ones.