A more irretating thing is that Fedora Core 2 worked Excelent!! The only problem there was the TV out and a "second monitor"
I believe the concept was to get xorg-x11 as close to upstream as possible. A lot of videocards suffered from the transition from redhat patched to mostly upstreamed version. This driver did not give me fits when running FC2 either. however, when installing a clean install of FC3, it seemed to exhibit problems. I guess since the problem is here now with the adoption of getting things fixed upstream vs. a heavily patched version, problems need submitted to
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/
I am getting ready to search bugs for the radeon card. I'll post if I cross a bug report that sounds similar to the problem you are having.
The first time after install, I had to enter runlevel 3 to get in the noaccel option in the conf file. But now i boot into runlevel 5
I think that I had a mess on first boot into FC3 post-install. I did not add the option into my file. I just kept starting X from a terminal, avoided switching video modes and the like. The card works fine otherwise.
As a test to see if switching from the GUI to terminal, then back to GUI had anything related to the gnome-panel, I set the upper panel to autohide. When I switched back to the GUI, it occupied the same "real estate" that was occupied by the hiden panel.(very narrow bar, vs normal panel width.) I guess this might mean that the panel might have some influence on the problem that I am getting.
As an additional test, I added the Option "NoAccel" to the xorg.conf for my card and it stopped the problem that I got with the lockup. However, it left the screen rather untextured and I will probably revert back to removing the option w/ special care regarding mode switching and changing to the terminal.
This option "NoAccel" might be influencing the problem that you are seeing. You might try to change back to starting in runlevel 3, then edit out the option "NoAccel" from Xorg.conf and using startx to start the player. You might see better video performance from the video player, however your problem with not changing back to the terminal would not be addressed.
Regarding video players, I installed xine to play DVDs. It works fine for me. The videos play excellent and with much detail. (No additional options in the terminal.)
I was so angry at "fedora" so i tryed to install suse 9.2 a couple of days ago. it identifyed my graphics card as ati (with lost of numbers behind it) but in suse it was playing videos, totem was working and so on.
My touchpad was also working!! (but not my mouse!)
As a test, I changed my driver to "ati" and it worked pretty much like the radeon driver. I believe that the radeon and the "ati" driver work together. I think the radeon driver calls the ati driver, it might be the reverse situation though. Anyway, with the ati driver, I got the GUI-console-GUI lockup just the same.
But why is this display almost stopping working in fedora 3 when 2 was excelent!!!
Fedora without the ability to watch videos... hmmmm
I believe this is regression of a driver. It appears that a bug report should get the problem on the way to a resolution.
Thanks for the input. I was helped out by trying to guide you to a resolution. I don't know if this will help you to get videos playing again with FC3.
Off to freedesktop.org again! - :-)
BTW - resorting to the noaccel option for long term is not a very good solution. When I scrolled down this message, strobing was pretty bad. Normally (for me) there is no such problem with no added entries in xorg.conf
Jim
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