screen blanks with nomodeset
Christopher K. Johnson
ckjohnson at gwi.net
Mon Apr 6 15:04:31 UTC 2009
Jack Howarth wrote:
> Is anyone else still having the stock ati drivers in Fedora
> 10 occasionally blank out the screen? I have been resorting to
> the use of the nomodeset kernel argument in an attempt to disable
> modesetting, but, while less frequent, the black screens still
> appear. Normally, it will return back to the same display but on
> occasion, I get a reboot. This is on a Radeon X1650 Pro with
> Fedora 10 x86_64.
> Jack
>
>
It happens to me occasionally, and when it does it becomes completely
unresponsive to power button, keyboard, mouse, and network. I have to
force power off. I have nomodeset kernel option in grub.
Mine is ATI Technologies Inc Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 on kernel
2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686.
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