screen blanks with nomodeset

[Christopher K. Johnson]

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.