F10 Crash on laptop Radeon 200M

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:02:13 -0500,
  Wade Hampton <wadehamptoniv at gmail.com> wrote:
> Finally upgraded my Gateway laptop with ATI Radeon Express 200M video
> to Fedora 10.  The computer now only stays up for a few minutes when X
> is running, then locks up -- no keyboard, mouse, and display freezes.
> I am not sure if I can ssh to it (not yet tested).  This is my wife's
> laptop and has been running Fedora 6 and was VERY stable for several
> years....  Wife is not very happy at this point.  Note, I reported
> this to RedHat bugzilla (and D. Jones at Redhat already had opened a
> bug on this some time ago).
> 
> I also tried to get the non-free driver working but it won't build
> with Fedora 10 yet.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this problem (this was sent
> from XP on the same laptop),

It's probably worth disabling modesetting to see if that fixes the problem.
Either way a bug report is a good idea.