Syv Ritch wrote:
> 4.1 to 4.2 has been a total disaster.
>
> I ran yum update, it went through and a couple of hours later I rebooted
> and X froze with the screen just being just fuzz [regular rectangles,
> orange, green...] and the keyboard froze. Could not do a
> alt-ctrl-backspace, nor a Alt-F1-6 nor Alt-Ctrl-Del.
>
> I have a ATI9200 with a Samsung 710N [It only works at 1240x1024 @ 60Hz,
> it will not work at any other frequency]
>
> This is the same hardware as I was running with 4.1.
>
> I had to reinstall 4.1, now I cannot run yum update to get the security
> updates, it tries to upgrade to 4.2.
>
> 1. Is there a way to just get the updates for 4.1 and not 4.2
> 2. Any suggestion on what went wrong with X. It's not just the frequency
> display because the keyboard also froze.
I have finally solved the problem.
The problem IS [present tense] X. X dies with the ATI card. I
have tried changing the driver to ATI's, and still no dice. I
ended cannibalizing an older PC and changing the video card to an
nVidia GeForce2. Everything works well.
Something's wrong on how X talks or does not talk to the ATI9200.
It's not the driver because it happens with both dri and fglrx,
so ...
