Freeze / lockup when starting X with Radeon 7500 - freshly installed F8

[Jim Cornette]

Juergen Botz wrote:
> I just did a fresh install of F8 on a system with an old
> ATI Radeon 7500 (AGP) board, and the system freezes when 
> starting X.  The xorg.conf is just the basic one that the 
> install generated... it had the 'radeon' driver for device,
> but I also tried putting 'ati' with the same result.  
> Putting 'vesa' as the device works fine.
> 
> The freeze is a hard lockup, i.e. the system no longer
> responds to pings from the outside.
> 
> Other system info:
>    CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2500+
>    MB:  Asus A7V8X (Via KT400/KT600 based)
>    RAM: 1.5GB
> 
> What can I do to fix or further diagnose this?
> 
> TIA, :j
> 

What happens if you use no xorg.conf and start X? It will use internal 
to the server values.

Regarding the hard lock, I had this problem with some radeon 7000 series 
Graphics card many Fedora versions back. I ended up giving away the card.
You might need to use the binary version instead of the one provided by 
X. Adding reference to Radeon in subject.

-- 
It is only people of small moral stature who have to stand on their dignity.