Linux, ATI driver 3.7.6, crashes on startup @ s8066

[gnupooh]

I'm trying to run el on Fedora 1.0 Linux using the ATI fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6 driver. It crashes as soon as you log in. When I run it with gdb there's more than 10,000 calls of the function s8066 in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so calling itself. Obviously, it's releated to a bug in the ATI driver where a function that calls itself can get into a infinite recursion. Anyway, the driver DOES work with many other games and 3D applications, so is releated to something different that EL is doing.

 

Has anyone else seen this behavior? Is there any "test" code I run to try to isolate the problem?

 

Thanks,

Rick Niles (aka GnuPooh)