X does not work with ATI based machines

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 17:38 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:

> I just tried to update that machine.  I shut it down and I tried to
> restart and that is what I get.  It runs windows Ok, so I conclude
> that some update broke it.  Ram is fine, why?  Windows does not
> complain.  Disk is fine, why?  Windows does not complain and disk does
> not screech/scratch/ or output weird sounds.  This is one of the
> machines that the little annoying program said that one or more hard
> disks are failing by the way :(, It was working, it worked since late
> March and before.  Can the disk really be failing? only on the Fedora
> side and not on the Windows Side?  This would be really sad and I
> would get feelings to just nuke Fedora and leave the evil empire
> installed to the whole disk and hope that it truly fails and then I
> can conclude that the utility was right and apologize to all for
> doubting "One or more hard disks are failing" :(, but the laws of
> probability tell me otherwise.  I have a hard drive that
> scratches/screams/(I can hear sounds
>  coming from it) for 3 years and it is still running ?  This is a
> weird case, till that happens in this disks case, I will conclude that
> the utility was right, but for now it is wrong and this system is
> indeed nuked, how sad :(

Sorry, looks like I was wrong there - by the other comments it is just a
bug in the kernel. I was fooled by the error messages (they're usually
the kind you get when something's *really* broken).
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