System freeze with ATI

[Kevin Kofler]

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.

I suspect kernel modesetting. Try booting with the nomodeset flag. See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464896

        Kevin Kofler