Fedora 13: Lockup and "rainbow" fade to white

[JerichoKru]

I installed F13 on an old laptop (Toshiba L35-S2174). The CD passed an integrity check and did not give me issues when in the LiveCD environment.

After the install and last configuration, I logged in and went about getting updates and exploring. About 5 minutes in Xorg apparently locks up and starts shifting between different colors (hence "rainbow") as it slowly fades to white.

I figured it might be an Xorg misconfiguration (there wasn't an xorg.conf) so I went and created one with a configuration the I know that works (I have had a few other distros on here for testing, none have had this issue). This did not resolve anything.


I will attempt to get a hold of log-files for Xorg and whatever else you may need.

[JerichoKru]

Forgive the double post.

Added are my Xorg log (I'm aware of the warnings of that certain things I have enabled are not used...I'll fix it later) and my dmesg...should any of you need it.

[CSchwangler]

Since you have an ATI card, you may want to try the "nomodeset" kernel parameter:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common...hical_problems

Its quick to try that and, on my ThinkPad X31 with ATI card, it made suspend/hibernate working and eliminated some graphical glitches.

[JerichoKru]

Originally Posted by CSchwangler

Since you have an ATI card, you may want to try the "nomodeset" kernel parameter:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common...hical_problems

Its quick to try that and, on my ThinkPad X31 with ATI card, it made suspend/hibernate working and eliminated some graphical glitches.

This appears to have fixed it, thanks.