ATI 4850 Fedora 15 Freeze

[f3doranewb]

I have just installed Fedora 15. This is my second install. The other install was dual booted with windows 7. I had a server setup on it, install some editors, ftp client, etc. After a bit, it started to freeze up for a bit but mouse would still be usable. After a bit, the system would come back to me. I am curious, is my ATI 4850 video card to blame on this? I am on the gnome3 and imagine it would take up some resources and not sure if I need to install the 4850 driver. Thanks for any help.

[mikee]

Somehow, I want to blame it on gnome3....

[Bad2theBone]

I have a similar problem but with KDE on F15. I currently have an ATI HD3650 installed. The difference is that my mouse pointer also becomes unresponsive along with the keyboard. I had run into a thread that suggested diabling Desktop Effects and that seemed to fix it for a couple of days and then today it started again. When it happens if I am playing music tracks it'll keep on going until the track ends and does not go to the next track. One time I was printing a 200 page document and the printer finished the document and then stopped while everything else was unresponsive.

Today I ran into another thread that indicates installing Catalyst and then blacklisting radeon, radeonhd fixed it for him (Fedora 15 freezes with ATI Catalyst), the subject line is misleading, I first thought the problem was Catalyst until I actually read the thread.

[goodfella]

My freeze problems are solved by removing frame buffer access in the kernel. My ATI card
which is supported by the ATI Radeon driver hangs at random times with a default up to date
kernel. I downloaded the kernel source and configured it without Frame Buffer access. Now
works great.

[Vansolrick]

Originally Posted by mikee

Somehow, I want to blame it on gnome3....

+1 My crashes in F16 after installing AMD drivers only happens when I'm running the Gnome 3 session. hmm