Ati Radeon 7000 / Dell PowerEdge 1850

Wed May 10 23:16:23 PDT 2006

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 14:02 -0400, Michael Krufky wrote:
> 
> I was having this problem with my Radeon 7500 card, using a Planar 1910 
> flat panel monitor.  I was also using FC4 with the 2.6.16-1.2096smp 
> kernel ...  I updated last night to 2.6.16-1.2108smp, and I have only 
> rebooted once since then, without any problem.  However, due to the 
> inconsistency of this problem, I am not yet convinced that my my machine 
> is cured.  I run mythtv on this machine, so I would not consider moving 
> away from the ati drivers.  (I am using the oss radeon driver with MergedFB)

The radeon driver in X.Org 6.8/6.9/7.0 had bugs that could cause
symptoms like this. They're fixed in xf86-video-ati 6.5.8 (for X.Org
7.0) and 6.6.0 (for the upcoming X.Org 7.1).

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