On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Robbie Smith <zoqaeski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > After the last updates, I was getting a kernel panic at reboot; > hard-resetting and then powering on again and it seems to boot fine. > > I suspect the problem has to do with the ATI Catalyst driver, as the > panics occurred when rebooting after upgrading or downgrading the driver. I > originally upgraded to 12.9, but rolled back to 12.8 after discovering that > 12.9 broke my screen brightness keys. I also had to roll back Xorg to 1.12 > because Catalyst doesn't support the new Xorg yet. > > Both times I rebuilt the module and (just to be sure) the kernel image > before rebooting. I rebuilt them again once the system was back up, > rebooted, and it worked. > > Any ideas how to debug, seeing as this just sort of popped up > out-of-the-blue? If the kernel even logs a panic, where do I find it so I > can figure out what caused it? > I myself am suited with Radeon opensource drivers for all my needs - GoogleEarth and Blender, you should try it. As for your Catalyst specific glitchs it might be a better place to post your issue at the AMD / ATi Bar & Grill at the forums since that thread is created and maintained by Vi0L0 himself, the Catalyst packager and supporter: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57084
