On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 09:40:23AM -0600, Mark Stodola wrote: > On 02/22/2013 04:53 AM, Eva Myers wrote: > >I have a problem with the new Firefox 17 on SL5 machines with ATI > >Radeon X300 graphics cards using the fglrx driver. The X server will > >frequently crash when a user attempts to start Firefox, leaving the > >computer with its screen black and unresponsive to mouse or keyboard > >(the Xorg process just sits there eating CPU). Does anyone know a fix > >for this problem? > >Eva. > > This sounds more like a problem with fglrx, are you using the one from > ELrepo? I'm still on FF 10ESR here, but under Options/Preferences (they > keep changing it I swear!), in the advanced section, general tab, you > can uncheck hardware acceleration. See if that alleviates the problem. > It may be useful to check your Xorg log files for clues as well.
I downloaded fglrx from http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Legacy/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.1&product=2.4.1.3.12&lang=English Eva.
