Fedora 10 freezes after a while

[Globe Trotter]

--- On Sat, 12/6/08, Konstantin Svist <fry.kun at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Konstantin Svist <fry.kun at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Fedora 10 freezes after a while
> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Saturday, December 6, 2008, 1:29 AM
> I tried your advice on my system, but radeonhd driver
> doesn't seem to
> support my card (X800PRO)
> I guess I'll just reach for fglrx :|
> 
> 
> 
> bruce 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!!
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of
> Globe Trotter
> > Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 10:00 AM
> > To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for
> using Fedora.
> > Subject: RE: Fedora 10 freezes after a while
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- On Thu, 12/4/08, bruce
> <bedouglas at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> From: bruce <bedouglas at earthlink.net>
> >> Subject: RE: Fedora 10 freezes after a while
> >> To: itsme_410 at yahoo.com, "'Community
> assistance, encouragement, and advice
> >>     
> > for using Fedora.'"
> <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >   
> >> Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 10:51 PM
> >> hey globe..
> >>
> >> what's the driver that you're using in the
> >> xorg.conf?
> >>     
> >
> >
> > Here is the xorg.conf:
> > # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
> >
> > Section "ServerLayout"
> >         Identifier     "single head
> configuration"
> >         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
> >         InputDevice    "Keyboard0"
> "CoreKeyboard"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> >         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
> >         Driver      "kbd"
> >         Option      "XkbModel"
> "pc105"
> >         Option      "XkbLayout"
> "us"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Device"
> >         Identifier  "Videocard0"
> >         Driver      "radeon"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Screen"
> >         Identifier "Screen0"
> >         Device     "Videocard0"
> >         DefaultDepth     24
> >         SubSection "Display"
> >                 Viewport   0 0
> >                 Depth     24
> >         EndSubSection
> > EndSection
> >
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > T
> >
> >

I have to say that this has always frozen for me when I have had xlock (when I have switched it on) or xscreensaver on (i.e. the screensaver has kicked in).

Trotter