System freeze with ATI
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Tue Jan 6 21:32:15 UTC 2009
Giuseppe Fuggiano wrote:
> Hi all. I installed Fedora 10 on my Asus A7D laptop, which have an
> ATI Radeon Mobility x700 video card. Fedora automagically detected it
> and used the open source drivers. All worked fine, except the fact
> that the system totally crash in these situations:
>
> 1) Randomly;
> 2) If I enable Desktop Effects.
>
> Is there a way to workaround this bad issue? Before trying to install
> the proprietary drivers I'd like to hear some opinions.
>
> Thank you.
I have been running since the pre-beta and haven't had an issue yet, on my Acer
"Extensa" using ATI drivers, so you can assume it's not some general defect
hitting all ATI laptops. I doubt it promises more than that, however.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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