ATI Radeon 9800

[Claude Jones]

On Wed August 17 2005 6:15 am, John Horne wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 22:02 -0700, Robert Bell wrote:
> > Has anyone gotten fglrx drivers running on FC4 in a big desktop
> > configuration? Is NVIDIA any better? I'd hate to scrap a really good
> > (and expensive) card but I am at wits end.
>
> Hello,
>
> Not in a big desktop config, I use just the one monitor. However, I
> finally got my radeon 9600 to work fine under FC4. The problem was that
> the 'BlockSignalsOnLock' option was set 'on' in xorg.conf. This caused
> hard lockups with the screensavers (under both kde and gnome) . Setting
> the option to 'off' and it all works fine now. I use the livna rpms and
> then ran the fglrxconfig (or whatever) program to configure xorg.conf.
>

John: Great tip. How did you discover this? I went through the same process, 
but I changed very little in those config settings, because I couldn't find 
any documentation on them, and most were so cryptically worded that I 
couldn't intuit what they meant. I have two machines with Radeon 9200SE 
cards. One locks up all the time with certain screensavers - I found the one 
on this machine to be set to "on" as well. This machine didn't give me fits 
with the screen saver, but I couldn't lock it. I just tried locking it after 
changing the setting and it worked. 

-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA