I've been having a few problems, and not just with FG, since fitting a new 
ATI 9200 vid card but just recently I've found that I can't run FG at 
night-time at all.

This wasn't originally the case when I first fitted the card - it's 
happened since, either as a result of system upgrades (Debian Unstable) 
or due to changes in FG or it's supporting packages i.e. plib or SimGear.

I've tried both versions of the ATI drivers that I have - 3.2.5 & 3.2.8 - 
but the problem occurrs with both of them, but as I said, when I 
originally fitted the card this problem didn't happen - Heh! I have the 
screen grabs to prove it.

Is anyone aware of any recent changes to FG, over the last month or so, 
that might be causing this?

What happens now is that if I start FG with the sim time in darkness, FG 
runs for about 2-3 seconds before the display hangs.  The mouse still 
works and I can ssh into the box from another system, where I can see X 
thrashing, but I'm not able to either restart X or even shutdown cleanly.  
Any attempt to do so results in a complete system lock-up.

The mis-behaviour after the problem has occurred i.e. the inability to 
close X or cleanly shutdown, is definitely down to ATI's drivers but I'm 
wondering what's causing them to flip-out in the first place.  The 
drivers were originally ok with FG and the problems with other packages 
don't appear to have changed, which rather points at changes in FG.

LeeE


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