ATi Radeon 9550 + Open Source Radeon Driver Crash the Whole Box

[John Horne]

On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 23:14 +0800, Guo Lin wrote:
> Hi guys.
> 
> I installed Beryl recently on my FC6. It looks great, the animations
> are always smooth and elegant on my ATi Radeon 9550. But after using
> it a while, it starts crashing my pc, I mean my whole PC, not Beryl
> itself. When it crashes, usually it turn off the power of my PC,
> leaving my power button blinking, while at other times it just hang my
> PC ( i.e. cursor, num lock and everything is not responding).
> 
> I tried to let Beryl run on AIGLX and also on XGL + closed source
> driver, but both result in these weird crashes.
> 
> Could anyone please guide me to overcome this problem? Or did anyone
> experience this before? 
> 
Are you sure it is not a heat problem? I have a radeon 9600, and I had
to install an extra fan in the box. Without it the computer
automatically shutdown as it was getting too hot after running 3D stuff.
The system would run at a lower temperature so long as I didn't run any
3D games, 3D screensavers or something like beryl.



John.

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