ATI Radeon 9800

[John Horne]

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 13:56 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 17.08.2005, 06:42 -0400 schrieb 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:
> > > 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.
> 
> Thanks for the information. Other have similar problems:
> 
> http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=58
> 
> I'll add this information there.
> 
Many thanks. I did look at the ATI web site but didn't see any reference
to entering bugs into a bugzilla. There was some info there about other
problems (using linux) but nothing I could see that seemed to relevant
to my problem.

> >  I use the livna rpms and
> > > then ran the fglrxconfig (or whatever) program to configure xorg.conf.
> 
> BTW: You know that you don't have to? The livna rpms automatically
> activate fglrx during install.
> 
Yes, you may well be right. I think I ran the config program when I
started looking into the problem in order to see what it did say and if
it offered anything that may give me a hint to the problem.

I hope this solution does indeed help others with the problem, and that
it is the correct solution. As said, I am no X/graphics expert! :-)


John.

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