System crash with HD7770
Submitted by Martin Davey
Assigned to xf86-video-ati maintainers
Description
Hi,
I have a Radeon HD7770 with an abit pro motherboard, running Fedora 20.
xorg-x11-server reports version 1.14.4-6.fc20.
I have a repeatable complete system crash (screen goes blank, numlock un-responsive etc), in some conditions when a drop down is selected in certain programs.
Under XFCE4, if I load gimp and select export, a drop down list appears. If I click on this, everything freezes, screen goes blank, and system crashes.
I get the same now with inkscape, and some graphical export functions under freecad.
Given that both these programs have graphics functions , I kind of got the feeling that it may be related to the graphics driver. I can't think of any way of proving this however.
Oddly the same happens in audacity when click the drop-down bar to change audio, not obviously this is not a graphical application. But again the crash is occurring on a drop down box.
This used to happen in eclipse under KDE... actually when I expanded a tree view in the debug window. But then I switched to XFCE4 so not sure if that issue is still present.
Sorry if this does not belong here. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do or try to help with the debug.
Thanks,
Martin.