On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 13:56 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 17.08.2005, 06:42 -0400 schrieb Claude Jones: > > On Wed August 17 2005 6:15 am, John Horne wrote: > > > On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 22:02 -0700, Robert Bell wrote: > > > 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. > > Thanks for the information. Other have similar problems: > > http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=58 > > I'll add this information there. > Many thanks. I did look at the ATI web site but didn't see any reference to entering bugs into a bugzilla. There was some info there about other problems (using linux) but nothing I could see that seemed to relevant to my problem. > > I use the livna rpms and > > > then ran the fglrxconfig (or whatever) program to configure xorg.conf. > > BTW: You know that you don't have to? The livna rpms automatically > activate fglrx during install. > Yes, you may well be right. I think I ran the config program when I started looking into the problem in order to see what it did say and if it offered anything that may give me a hint to the problem. I hope this solution does indeed help others with the problem, and that it is the correct solution. As said, I am no X/graphics expert! :-) John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: John.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839
