Bad F17 install experiences: CentOS 6.3 vs. F17

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:21:16 -0700,
   John Reiser <jreiser at bitwagon.com> wrote:
>On 08/16/2012 08:52 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:13:14 -0400,
>>   Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Even where you guys couldn't get stuff working, I have gotten work around advice. For example, Airlie told me how to disable AGP in order to prevent lockups on my rv280. Other than possibly being a little slower than it should be, that has kept the card working fine.
>
>Is this the one you refer to ["radeon.agpmode=-1 on the kernel command line"]?
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583319#c17
>If not, then please share.

Yes. If I don't do that my system will lock up fairly quickly in firefox 
or colossus. With it, things work fine.