Does any one experience random black screens for a second or two every now and then? I am currently using drivers 8.12?
Now I am waiting for 9.1 Ebuid for Gentoo and it would be nice to watch tearless movies.
For all those which are experiencing hangs on log out this might help. It helped me a lot, hang ups on log out and console corruption have nearly disappeared
Check if /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles exists for your distribution (this is needed by atieventsd)
ls -l /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles
Otherwise you can fix it by creating one
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/xdm/authdir
sudo ln -s /var/run/xauth /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles
Check authatieventsd.sh script execution bit I think it should be set for executing the script or am I wrong!?
ls -l /etc/ati/authatieventsd.sh
You can fix it by setting excution bit
chmod 755 /etc/ati/authatieventsd.sh
or instead of this it is also possible to simply kill hanged process showing up something as sh -c "/etc/ati/authatieventsd.sh ..." before Xorg restart :?
Some people also say that it is not a bad idea to force restart X server on log out, so this depends on the DM you are using
for KDM ( I use kdm-4.1.4 before I've always used GDM with ATI and dual head configurations)
vi /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
Uncomment the following line under the section titled [X-:*-Core]:
TerminateServer=True
for GDM
add following in /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf
[daemon]
AlwaysRestartServer=true
I am using Gentoo x86_64 on
AMD Phenom(tm) 9950 Quad-Core Processor,
ATI Technologies Inc Device 9442 HD 4850 (broke down so I am currently using HD4550 as short term replacement),
Asus M3A32MVP Deluxe
Now I am waiting for 9.1 Ebuid for Gentoo and it would be nice to watch tearless movies.
For all those which are experiencing hangs on log out this might help. It helped me a lot, hang ups on log out and console corruption have nearly disappeared
Check if /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles exists for your distribution (this is needed by atieventsd)
ls -l /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles
Otherwise you can fix it by creating one
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/xdm/authdir
sudo ln -s /var/run/xauth /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles
Check authatieventsd.sh script execution bit I think it should be set for executing the script or am I wrong!?
ls -l /etc/ati/authatieventsd.sh
You can fix it by setting excution bit
chmod 755 /etc/ati/authatieventsd.sh
or instead of this it is also possible to simply kill hanged process showing up something as sh -c "/etc/ati/authatieventsd.sh ..." before Xorg restart :?
Some people also say that it is not a bad idea to force restart X server on log out, so this depends on the DM you are using
for KDM ( I use kdm-4.1.4 before I've always used GDM with ATI and dual head configurations)
vi /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
Uncomment the following line under the section titled [X-:*-Core]:
TerminateServer=True
for GDM
add following in /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf
[daemon]
AlwaysRestartServer=true
I am using Gentoo x86_64 on
AMD Phenom(tm) 9950 Quad-Core Processor,
ATI Technologies Inc Device 9442 HD 4850 (broke down so I am currently using HD4550 as short term replacement),
Asus M3A32MVP Deluxe
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