On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Michael Nichols wrote: > Hello, > > I've search through the list threads and have found > similar problems as the one I'm facing but not this > exact problem.. So here it goes.. > > Two different systems, one Dell C610 laptop and one > Dell GX260 Desktop. The laptop has an integrated Ati > Radeon Mobility M6 and the Desktop has Ati Radeon 7000 > VE (dual-head card). > > Running RH 8.0, both these systems work great. Did > fresh installs of RH 9 (needed for a project @ work) > now the systems freeze while displaying 3D graphics, > mainly screensavers. This occurs both in KDE and > Gnome, when it happens the system freezes - have no > choice but to remote-in and kill the process or power > cycle the system. > > Both systems are currently running RH 9 with All > Errata updates applied, also per previous postings in > the redhat-xfree86 list I've upgraded X to 4.3.0-15 > from Rawhide - this made no difference. > > Any suggestions are welcomed. (1) Disable 3D screensavers? I know it's not a fix, but it's a workaround. I figure there's not much point in running screensavers on a laptop anyway, so I turned them all off and set the screen to blank after a short time. (2) Report problems to Bugzilla, or xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx, or to XFree86 directly. > > thank you, > Mike > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). > http://calendar.yahoo.com > > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
