On Friday 24 July 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Andras Simon wrote: >> On 7/24/09, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > at this point, i have to agree. i've been on fedora for several >> > releases but if i can't get minimally functional video drivers >> > that don't lock up my desktop every 15-30 minutes, it's time to >> > move on and find something that works. life is too short to spend >> > hours messing with this and reporting to bugzilla only for nothing >> > to happen. >> >> I understand your frustration, but: are these Fedora or X problems? >> If the latter, then I wonder what "moving on" could mean... > > i *was* going to add something to that effect to my previous note. >are other distros having exactly the same frustrations? friends of >mine who run debian or ubuntu seem to be happy, so maybe i'll ask them >what they're doing. > > i'm not asking for much -- i don't need 3D or blazing speed. i just >want my native 1280x800 screen resolution. i don't think that's >being unreasonable. > >rday >-- > FWIW Robert, I have an HD2400 Pro card, rv610 chipset. With kernel 2.6.30.2, it hasn't done the wild blanking on me that it did with earlier kernels. And I don't recall if I saw that while running even newer 31-rc1-3 either. .31-rc4 won't boot here so I can't say if it works. glxgears is slow, maybe 275fps, but if I get a clean connection to the src, all news videos play well, and kaffiene can watch hidef tv full screen. I'm not a gamer, so that is generally fast enough for me. And yes, I keep pinging Alex D., who is learning that promises made aren't always promises kept as he gets assigned to something else all too often. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> No yak too dirty; no dumpster too hollow. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines