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

[Mingfeng Yang]

Hi, Greg and Tom,

It's just lucky to have a new ati-driver released at the same moment.
Yes. After upgraded to 8.18.6, everything came back to normal, and the 
rendering become even faster.

Thank you for your help!

Yang

Greg Couch wrote:

> 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
>