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@cgl.ucsf.edu