On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 07:53, Alan wrote: > > > I have a Radeon 7000 card on an Athlon system with a SiS motherboard. > > > > I installed Fedora Core 2 on it. X worked all through the install. > > > > When I rebooted the system, the screen goes black and the system hangs. > > (Or at least X goes into a state I cannot get out of without a hard > > reboot.) > > Can't you get to a text console with Ctrl-Alt-F1 ? > > I'm interested because I have an ATI Rage Mobility P/M card > in my Sony C1VFK which will only work at DefaultDepth 8. > Otherwise I get a black screen gradually shrinking to a white screen - > but I can always get to a text console. > > > If I comment out the dri line in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, it works fine, but > > I do not get hardware acceleration. > > I tried this, but it had no effect in my case. > > It seems to me the Xorg "ati" driver is less than perfect. > > > I have a Dell Latitude with an ATI Mobility Radeon that has the same problem. My workaround, is to get to a command prompt, logon as a user and then issue the startx command. Then I get the GUI without problems. I am not sure why this works, but it's a workaround. I did try commenting out the dri line but still had the same issue. This laptop had no problems with FC1
