[Chimera-users] ATI-Driver & Chimera hangs OS

[Greg Couch]

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Mingfeng Yang wrote:

> I am using Chimera build version 1 build 2176 on my Gentoo Linux
> platform, with ati firegl 8700 graphic card.
> After I upgraded the ati-drivers from 8.14.13 to 8.16.20, chimera will
> hang the whole system, everything dead, including the keyboard. I can
> only see the chimera window frame (the border), nothing else.
>
> What could be the problem?

Well, it sounds like the graphics driver is buggy.  The latest Linux 
version from ATI is version 8.18.6.  Please try the lastest version.  If 
that still fails, let us know, and downgrade to 8.14.13.

We have also seen a similar hanging problem when chimera is started up 
from a terminal window and then the user types control-Z to suspend 
chimera.  The workaround is to "not do that" and to start a new terminal 
window to work in.

 	Hope this helps,

 	Greg Couch
 	UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
 	gregc at cgl.ucsf.edu