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Wow you are right, a bunch of core fc7 packages made it back into my fc8 when I did the X related group installs. Crazy! I had gotten rid of all but a few fc7 packages and my system was stable. ...

Sorry guys, I'm not seeing the black screen or the auto reboot, but I do have these problems persisting.

Hard Lockup when I play something like quake3 engine. ( probably anything with 3D accel ) ...

690G IGP ATI x1250 128MB fedora 8 x68_64 latest proprietary fglrx from AMD website

As wolf said, my post should be moved to fglrx, but interesting anyway.

Now I believe locks are due to...

Not using AIGLX at this point, just wanted to get urbanterror working.

I'm feeling stupid for not trying this first, I was running all 3D options on in fc7, but it wasn't required to play games.
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Didn't take long for the smoke to start, next comes the flames.

I tried suse 9 way back, and it was usable, I bet opensuse is very nice. ?

Have you looked at this site?
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690G IGP x1250 128MB ( total RAM 2GB )

When I say hard lock / freeze I mean I cannot kill X, I can't do anything, I must hit the reset button on my tower.

AKA kernel panic bsod crash freeze...

ditto koolmanoncampus

I use fedora because I have used redhat distros since RH7.

Use different distros, have more little distro specific things to learn :D

I agree with everyone about the...

Please let me know if I'm off point here.

Following instructions I found that indeed the script

/etc/ati/authatieventsd.sh

was not finding

:0.Xauth

I'm running XFCE with AIGLX off ( at the time of the test a firefox that has been playing flash videos for hours is running, along with mysql query browser amarok others ) Linux rules

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690G ati x1200 IGP WAS using ati proprietary but had problems after upgrading from fedora 7 to 8 ( this is x86_64 btw ) I try to use yum for everything.

X was loop, lock, freeze, kernel...