ATI Radeon 9800

chalonec chalonec at comcast.net
Fri Aug 19 00:37:32 UTC 2005




>I have a radeon 7200 and my machine locks up all the time.  Even if I 
>reboot and don't login, if I wait, the machine locks up.  Locked up during 
>fresh installs also, especially if I used non-text mode.  I am running on a 
>dual processor  abit board with the via chipset.  Any ideas?
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Eddie" <bra.eddie at gmail.com>
> To: <john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk>; "For users of Fedora Core releases" 
> <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 7:56 PM
> Subject: Re: ATI Radeon 9800
>
>
>> John Horne wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, August 17, 2005 16:27, Robert Bell said:
>>>
>>>>Thanks for the info, unfortunately I don't have that in my config file.
>>>>Here is mine, anything look out of the ordinary?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>I don't run a multihead layout so I can't really comment on that. 
>>>However,
>>>if you are having similar hang problems with screensavers then you should
>>>be able to just add in the option to see if it helps. Eg:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Section "Device"
>>>>    Identifier  "Videocard1"
>>>>    Driver      "fglrx"
>>>>    VendorName  "Videocard Vendor"
>>>>    BoardName   "ATI Radeon 9800"
>>>>    Option        "VideoOverlay" "on"
>>>>
>>>      Option      "BlockSignalsOnLock"   "off"
>>>
>>>>    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
>>>>    Screen      1
>>>>EndSection
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>John.
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks alot dude. Had the same issues with my pc hanging when promted
>> with screen saver pw. Sorted now.
>>
>> Edd
>>
>> -- 
I have a radeon 7200 and my machine locks up all the time.  Even if I reboot
and don't login, if I wait, the machine locks up.  Locked up during fresh
 installs also, especially if I used non-text mode.  I am running on a dual
 processor  abit board with the via chipset.  Any ideas?




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