On 02/22/2013 10:14 AM, Eva Myers wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 09:40:23AM -0600, Mark Stodola wrote:
>> On 02/22/2013 04:53 AM, Eva Myers wrote:
>>> I have a problem with the new Firefox 17 on SL5 machines with ATI
>>> Radeon X300 graphics cards using the fglrx driver.  The X server will
>>> frequently crash when a user attempts to start Firefox, leaving the
>>> computer with its screen black and unresponsive to mouse or keyboard
>>> (the Xorg process just sits there eating CPU).  Does anyone know a fix
>>> for this problem?
>>> Eva.
>>
>> This sounds more like a problem with fglrx, are you using the one from
>> ELrepo?  I'm still on FF 10ESR here, but under Options/Preferences (they
>> keep changing it I swear!), in the advanced section, general tab, you
>> can uncheck hardware acceleration.  See if that alleviates the problem.
>>   It may be useful to check your Xorg log files for clues as well.
>
> I downloaded fglrx from
> http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Legacy/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.1&product=2.4.1.3.12&lang=English
>
> Eva.

I would suggest uninstalling the one you have from AMD and trying the 
ELrepo packages.  They are built and tested for SL/CentOS/RHEL and are 
generally regarded as highly stable.  They will also properly 
persist/survive kernel updates.

-Mark

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