On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Wade Hampton <wadehamptoniv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Finally upgraded my Gateway laptop with ATI Radeon Express 200M video > to Fedora 10. The computer now only stays up for a few minutes when X > is running, then locks up -- no keyboard, mouse, and display freezes. > I am not sure if I can ssh to it (not yet tested). This is my wife's > laptop and has been running Fedora 6 and was VERY stable for several > years.... Wife is not very happy at this point. Note, I reported > this to RedHat bugzilla (and D. Jones at Redhat already had opened a > bug on this some time ago). > > I also tried to get the non-free driver working but it won't build > with Fedora 10 yet. > > Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this problem (this was sent > from XP on the same laptop), > > Also note that I have a bad CD-ROM/DVD drive so I had to use the > PXEBOOT vmlinuz and initrd from the install DVD plus a hard disk > install -- worked mostly great. The first time I tried it, anaconda > crashed just after formatting /boot and / rendering the laptop nearly > unbootable (grub was in the MBR so I was able to manually boot XP, > fixup my data partition, and then re-attempt the install). Yesterday > was very frustrating. > > Thanks, > -- > Wade Hampton I have the same problem with my wife's laptop (mentioned here in another thread) and it has the 200M chipset as well. Can this be a problem with the video driver? I had F9 working on it fine with the same version of the kernel it's running now with no problems. I also found that if I did not log in it did not lock up. Sometimes it works for 10 minutes, sometimes for 25 but that's about the longest I've had it work without locking up. I also was able to SSH into the machine but I could not do a gdm-restart or init 3 or anything like that. I could, however, reboot it. If you figure anything out I'd love to know what you did! Thanks, Richard -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
