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I've been suffering from this since the dawn of time (or 2 years ago). I'd love to know if it's a bug in the driver or if I'm doing something wrong.
When I'm running with the Catalyst driver (any version, including the current one), switching from the X server to a console (ie. ctrl-alt-F1) and then back to the X server causes the display to freeze at the console and become unresponsive. Nothing fixes this, I have no choice but to turn off the computer and re-start it to get a usable system again. I used to think this was due to some weird hardware combination, but I recently changed from an all-AMD system to an Intel motherboard/cpu and it STILL DOES IT! It happened on my old 790G motherboard (onboard HD3300 graphics), with my HD4350 card, and with my HD4670 card. Now it's happening with an X-48 motherboard, Core2 Duo processor and HD4350 video card.
That one issue has always driven me back to the radeonhd driver. I don't care much for 3D, so the radeonhd driver has always served me well. Besides, I got way better 2D performance out of it than I ever did with the Catalyst driver. But I just upgraded to opensuse 11.2, which includes the radeonhd 1.3 driver and now I'm getting all kinds of horrible artifacts on the desktop as I move my mouse cursor around. I wanted to give the Catalyst driver a chance again, and I got the same frozen-console issue again!!!
What's going on? Could a bug this blatant and obvious really have lasted this long without getting fixed? It boggles the mind!!!
When I'm running with the Catalyst driver (any version, including the current one), switching from the X server to a console (ie. ctrl-alt-F1) and then back to the X server causes the display to freeze at the console and become unresponsive. Nothing fixes this, I have no choice but to turn off the computer and re-start it to get a usable system again. I used to think this was due to some weird hardware combination, but I recently changed from an all-AMD system to an Intel motherboard/cpu and it STILL DOES IT! It happened on my old 790G motherboard (onboard HD3300 graphics), with my HD4350 card, and with my HD4670 card. Now it's happening with an X-48 motherboard, Core2 Duo processor and HD4350 video card.
That one issue has always driven me back to the radeonhd driver. I don't care much for 3D, so the radeonhd driver has always served me well. Besides, I got way better 2D performance out of it than I ever did with the Catalyst driver. But I just upgraded to opensuse 11.2, which includes the radeonhd 1.3 driver and now I'm getting all kinds of horrible artifacts on the desktop as I move my mouse cursor around. I wanted to give the Catalyst driver a chance again, and I got the same frozen-console issue again!!!
What's going on? Could a bug this blatant and obvious really have lasted this long without getting fixed? It boggles the mind!!!
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