David Curry wrote:
>> Have you recently applied X.org updates to your system?
>>
> Console is stable. X.org was updated by yum update two nights ago.
>
In similar circumstances, I would be suspicious that the X.org update
was the root of the problem if the problem started before
downloading/installing the ATI video Driver. If the blanking was
noticed after installation of the ATI driver, then I would suspect a
mismatch between that driver and your fedora system.
It has been a while since I looked at the ATI site, but unless things
have changed the ATI drivers are only available in binary packages and
compiled for an earlier kernel than that used by fedora core 2 or 3 and
compiled for use on the
XFree86.org window system. I expect the experts
will correct me if I am wrong here, but I *think* it may be best to
stick with drivers built for the xorg-x11 X Window system provided with
FC2 and 3. Further, you should be aware that several fedora users have
reported problems using ATI 3D cards.
In any event, you might want to double check your system's video card
and monitor settings. I *think* you can do that from a terminal command
line by entering system-config-display as root (using su - to setup
proper path environment).
I uninstalled the Radeon driver this am, and in the process it said it
found an incompatibility between itself and an xorg lib with an '.so'
ending, if that makes sense - it was about 4 am and I failed to write
down the info. The problem remains. So, I'm thinking that I should
revert to the previous xorg version (the current one has an ati video
driver update included, according to what I read), and then reinstall
the current version??? Does that make sense? If so, any suggestion about
how to roll back an xorg version? Will the rpm -e do it?
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Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA