On Sunday 05 July 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Saturday 04 July 2009, Frank Cox wrote: >> >On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:05:14 -0400 >> > >> >Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> Me 3. But in my case, once it starts, only a reboot will stop it. >> >> Using the radeonhd driver with an HD2400 Pro card. >> > >> >I am running F11 with a Radeon X1950 Pro card and haven't had any >> > problems at all with the comes-with-Fedora video driver. I didn't have >> > to do a thing to get it working with my wide-screen monitor when I >> > installed F11 on this computer, and I haven't had to do anything with it >> > since. >> >> But your card is not an HD family card. That would seem to be the >> operative keyword. It works ok for days at a time. But when it >> starts that, I may as well just do a graceful reboot & be done with >> it. > > there are currently two issues with radeon drivers that i've been >involved with, either reporting in BZ or suffering from. > > the first -- which i'm willing now to admit isn't a video driver >issue after all -- is the screen on my laptop just going dark >arbitrarily, even while i'm in the middle of work, so it's not a >screensaver issue. as someone else suggested, it's more likely a >power management issue. I think it could be related, Robert, but don't want to lay my hand anywhere near the good book as I simply don't know enough about it. There is another, possibly kde-ish item that I haven't had to fiddle with recently, and that is its forgetfulness about screen blanking. That's where I get up in the morning and find the monitor has been powered up all night, and I have to go into the menus, change something related to enable the apply button, and resave the prefs both in the blanker and display power menu's. But I haven't had that happen in a couple of weeks now. > the other issue -- which is still happening -- is that when i'm >working in the gnome desktop, trying to do something *suddenly* (a >quick window resize, or drag and drop) will cause the cursor to change >to the 4-way arrow, then give extremely slow response to moving, at >which point the rest of the session is frozen. the cursor can still >be moved very slowly, but nothing else is available. a reboot seems >to be required. > >rday This last doesn't seem to apply here Robert, but then I'm using kde-4.2something. >-- > >======================================================================== >Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA > > Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. > >Web page: http://crashcourse.ca >Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rpjday >Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday >======================================================================== -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> Sanity is the trademark of a weak mind. -- Mark Harrold -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
