On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:19 PM, bruce <bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > hi globe... > > you might want to try and download/install the radeonhd driver, and replace > the radeon in the conf file. > > i have f9, and had issues with f9 freezing on my toshiba laptop. downloading > the radeonhd driver, and replacing the raden driver in the xorg file seems > to have solved the issue. > > you can download the "radeonhd" driver using yum (not sure of the actual > filename" but check google..) > > in the xorg.conf file, > > replace > Driver "radeon" > with > Driver "radeonhd" > > see what happens!! I don't think it will work. I remember looking at the wiki for them recently and I believe the radeon HD driver is only for R500 and newer GPUs[1]. My wife has a Laptop with the 200M chipset which has either a R300 or R350 with the lockup issue, however, the nomodeset fixed it for her. Richard [1] http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd#head -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
