System freeze with ATI

[Bill Davidsen]

Giuseppe Fuggiano wrote:
> Hi all.  I installed Fedora 10 on my Asus A7D laptop, which have an
> ATI Radeon Mobility x700 video card.  Fedora automagically detected it
> and used the open source drivers.  All worked fine, except the fact
> that the system totally crash in these situations:
> 
>   1) Randomly;
>   2) If I enable Desktop Effects.
> 
> Is there a way to workaround this bad issue?  Before trying to install
> the proprietary drivers I'd like to hear some opinions.
> 
> Thank you.

I have been running since the pre-beta and haven't had an issue yet, on my Acer 
"Extensa" using ATI drivers, so you can assume it's not some general defect 
hitting all ATI laptops. I doubt it promises more than that, however.

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