We have had 4 machines with ATI FireGL X2 video cards since Feb 2004. As video drivers are updated through the years, the natural tendency is to install them to hopefully prevent/reduce/avoid problems. In Aug 2005 one of our people updated their driver without my knowledge and I later figured out that was the cause of his software OGL setting being turned on inside SW. Roll back to the older driver and the checkbox is back to normal. I also verified that scenario on my machine at the time. Since then we have not updated the drivers because of the check box. Once in a while our IT people forget and when rebuilding the machine to give it to someone else, they install the latest driver certified on the SW site, only to find that checkbox checked again. Reload the old driver and the box is now unchecked.
Ok, now the problem. We are getting errors, such as lockups, crashes, etc that are reported in the bug report as the video driver being the culprit. Does anyone have a solution such that we can load the latest driver and still not have the software OGL turned on?
WT