Comment 12 for bug 1639371

I have a combination that is working now, and this is my primary work computer. I'm a contract engineer, and when this thing is down I'm not earning my pay. So I really, really don't want to mess with it -- I'm sorry about that, but I hope you understand.

However, as I get time, I'd be willing to install things on a USB stick and see if I can't replicate the problem there.

Based on my own experience (I do embedded software work, but I'm just a user when it comes to Linux) I suspect that the actual problem is not the new driver itself, but that something in the installation process diddled with some global OpenGL settings that then broke either the Radeon driver, or OpenGL itself (I don't know if that makes sense, because I'm a USER. Call me if you're designing washing machine motor drive that buzzes on the spin cycle and I'll help you out, though).

So the process that I'd suggest, if you're willing to help me out with the details, would be to install an entire pre-November 4 version of Xubuntu onto a USB stick, verify that OpenGL works, then do the November 4 upgrade, and test OpenGL again.

I do have IT help on hand, whose familiar with Linux -- I just have to come up with appropriate bribes. So if it's too hard to describe to a knowledgeable user, describe it for someone who installs Arch onto a spare machine so that he can use that as a tool to talk to an obsolete Sun box that he's installing Gentoo upon -- he'll have the background to rapidly get things I don't.