f10beta frozen screen of death

[Jim Hayward]

On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 08:50 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> You might try booting with nomodeset. I have a r530 based card and while things
> are getting better I can still coerce an X lockup or kernel crash (it's hard
> to tell which is happening from the console sometimes). Things are stable
> there (but at home with an r280 card nomodeset breaks things) when I use
> nomodeset.

Looks like nomodeset is a good work around for me. So far I have not
seen any lockups since booting with it. I do see a corrupted screen, I
think right when GDM starts to load, but once it loads the display is
fine.

Regards,
	Jim H