screen settings

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Wed, 12/24/08, charles zeitler <cfzeitler at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: charles zeitler <cfzeitler at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: screen settings
> To: olivares14031 at yahoo.com
> Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 8:09 PM
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Antonio Olivares
> <olivares14031 at yahoo.com>wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > --- On Wed, 12/24/08, charles zeitler
> <cfzeitler at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > From: charles zeitler <cfzeitler at gmail.com>
> > > Subject: screen settings
> > > To: "Community assistance, encouragement,
> and advice for using Fedora." <
> > fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > > Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 7:52 PM
> > > when i click on "system settings->
> screen" my
> > > display goes black
> > > & my computer locks up. any suggestions?
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> > > charles zeitler
> > >
> >
> >
> > Which Fedora version are you running?
> 
> 
> 10
> 
> >
> > Which card do you have?
> > $ su -
> > passwd:
> > # lspci
> 
> 
> radeon x1600 (was 9550 - same problem)
> 
> >
> >
> > Is this a fresh installation?
> 
> 
> yes
> 
> , GNOME/KDE/XFCE which Desktop environment are you running?
> 
> 
> kde
> 
> >
> > Depending on your hardware and Fedora version, there
> are several things
> > that you can tell us so that someone can try to help
> you here.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Antonio
> >
> >
> >
> > thanks for the quick reply....
> 
> charles zeitler
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
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>        Shall  Be
>      The Whole  of
>         The Law
> 
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ATI/Radeon cards are kind of problematic.  Guess you were bitten in some way as I have :(, as I have an integrated ATI card:

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series]

while I can at least run it, before my machine was freezing for no apparent reason.  Do you have any proprietary drivers installed?

Also do you have an xorg.conf file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf?

Regards,

Antonio