screen blanks with nomodeset

[Jack Howarth]

Chris,
   The worst part is that the fglrx drivers have stopped working
on my machine with X1650 Pro graphics. The kernel level drivers
seem to work okay, but when X starts up, I only get a black screen.
This issue doesn't occur on a MacBook Pro with X1600 graphics so
it appears to be specific to that particular graphics card. I tried
rawhide over the weekend and the new DRI2 ati drivers have there
on slew of issues (like rendering out of windows for pymol).
           Jack