On 02/22/2013 10:14 AM, Eva Myers wrote:
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.
I would suggest uninstalling the one you have from AMD and trying the
ELrepo packages. They are built and tested for SL/CentOS/RHEL and are
generally regarded as highly stable. They will also properly
persist/survive kernel updates.
-Mark
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Mr. Mark V. Stodola
Senior Control Systems Engineer
National Electrostatics Corp.
P.O. Box 620310
Middleton, WI 53562-0310 USA
Phone: (608) 831-7600
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