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fglrx-installer package

  1. Bug #118605
  2. Comment #25

Comment 25 for bug 118605

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Ilja Pavkovic (ipavkovic) wrote : Re: [fglrx] freezes upon Logout or Switch user

Hi,

the attached patch seems to fix the problem for me (running kubuntu 7.10 with self compiled fglrx 8.3; yes, I know, not the right setup, but I assume this will also happen in hardy.).

Without this patch the process atieventsd infinitely waits for a child process 'sh -c "/etc/ati/authatieventsd.sh grant :0 /tmp/atievntX.3N1JTc"' (and this one waits for a child process 'xauth -f list'. Try this on your command line).

Perhaps other people having this problem may check for such hanging processes:
ps axuwww | grep -q authati || echo "authatieventsd fails"

If so, try to kill these process *before* shutting down the X server.

Can anyone else confirm this?