On Wed August 17 2005 6:15 am, John Horne wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 22:02 -0700, Robert Bell wrote: > > Has anyone gotten fglrx drivers running on FC4 in a big desktop > > configuration? Is NVIDIA any better? I'd hate to scrap a really good > > (and expensive) card but I am at wits end. > > Hello, > > Not in a big desktop config, I use just the one monitor. However, I > finally got my radeon 9600 to work fine under FC4. The problem was that > the 'BlockSignalsOnLock' option was set 'on' in xorg.conf. This caused > hard lockups with the screensavers (under both kde and gnome) . Setting > the option to 'off' and it all works fine now. I use the livna rpms and > then ran the fglrxconfig (or whatever) program to configure xorg.conf. > John: Great tip. How did you discover this? I went through the same process, but I changed very little in those config settings, because I couldn't find any documentation on them, and most were so cryptically worded that I couldn't intuit what they meant. I have two machines with Radeon 9200SE cards. One locks up all the time with certain screensavers - I found the one on this machine to be set to "on" as well. This machine didn't give me fits with the screen saver, but I couldn't lock it. I just tried locking it after changing the setting and it worked. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
