Hello together!
First of all: Please excuse my bad english. I'm trying to give my best.
Second: I am not as much experienced as many of you. So i ask for your patience.
Following drives me crazy: With fresh installed fglrx-driver(many versions, later more for it...) and enabled 2D/3D-acceleration my system completely freezes when i playback a divx-file(v 5). With a persistend sound on the headphones the only thing i can do is pressing the reset switch. This situation is repeatable although it is not always at the same point during the playback. When i play a "normal" mpeg-files/DVD everything seems fine.
I tested the memory with memtest86 and it reported that everthing is fine after one complete loop.
Here some details to my system:
- CPU AMD64 4000+
- RAM 2 x Infinion 512MB
- Graphic Card ATI Radeon X1800GTO
- Sound Card Audigy 2
And now another thing that give me the creeps: I tested many different Distros(Ubuntu 6.06, 6.10, 7.04, FC 5+6, Debian 4.0). The _only_ Distro that works is: Ubuntu 6.06
Why is that so? What is so different in this Version of Ubuntu? I know that there are different versions of the fglrx-driver in each distro when you stay with the repos but even when i looked thru the release-notes of the drivers i can't make out some information that is pointing me in a direction. Due to the lack of knowledge what is under the 'hood' i am completly clueless.
Even with the drivers directly from AMD/ATI there is no difference in the behavior of the system.
Another question would be for me: How can i monitor this lockups? How can i get debug-code that can be used for further investigation? The logs are - as far as i can remeber - empty of error-codes concerning fglrx.
Many thanks in advance
dolittle
First of all: Please excuse my bad english. I'm trying to give my best.
Second: I am not as much experienced as many of you. So i ask for your patience.
Following drives me crazy: With fresh installed fglrx-driver(many versions, later more for it...) and enabled 2D/3D-acceleration my system completely freezes when i playback a divx-file(v 5). With a persistend sound on the headphones the only thing i can do is pressing the reset switch. This situation is repeatable although it is not always at the same point during the playback. When i play a "normal" mpeg-files/DVD everything seems fine.
I tested the memory with memtest86 and it reported that everthing is fine after one complete loop.
Here some details to my system:
- CPU AMD64 4000+
- RAM 2 x Infinion 512MB
- Graphic Card ATI Radeon X1800GTO
- Sound Card Audigy 2
And now another thing that give me the creeps: I tested many different Distros(Ubuntu 6.06, 6.10, 7.04, FC 5+6, Debian 4.0). The _only_ Distro that works is: Ubuntu 6.06
Why is that so? What is so different in this Version of Ubuntu? I know that there are different versions of the fglrx-driver in each distro when you stay with the repos but even when i looked thru the release-notes of the drivers i can't make out some information that is pointing me in a direction. Due to the lack of knowledge what is under the 'hood' i am completly clueless.
Even with the drivers directly from AMD/ATI there is no difference in the behavior of the system.
Another question would be for me: How can i monitor this lockups? How can i get debug-code that can be used for further investigation? The logs are - as far as i can remeber - empty of error-codes concerning fglrx.
Many thanks in advance
dolittle
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