Problem booting up with Radeon 9200 Video Card

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 00:35 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 March 2006 18:22, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> >Has anyone had trouble with an ATI RV280 [Radeon 9200] video card?  My
> > X windows system won't start unless I press return a few times during
> > the boot process.  Fuller info is at:
> >        https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4611 .
> >
> >Any help will be appreciated - jon
> 
> I have a 9200SE, 128MB ddr ram, for almost 2 years now, running 
> xorg-6.8-901 on a very heavily hacked FC2 system.  Zero problems, none 
> in that time and I'm not even using the ati drivers, just the linux 
> stuff.  Even tuxracer runs pretty good.
> 
> But, I have never, ever, booted to runlevel 5 which it appears you are.  
> I boot to runlevel 3, login and do 'startx' from VT0.

This problem appeared some time last September in an upgrade to FC4.  If
you are still running drivers previous to FC4 it's not likely you would
have seen this problem.

jon