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Occasionally when running Fedora the screen will go blank except for the mouse which cannot move past the vertical and horizontal center of the screen but can move off the screen and appear on the other side both horizontally and vertically. There seems to be no way to get out of it other than to hold the power button until it turns off. I -think- it may be related to plugging into the charger. What the heck is going on?!?
Dell Insipiron 1501
vid: Ati something or other--Ill find it if you need it.
Thanks, please help
PS. How do I keep the mouse from going back pages when I move my finger along the bottom of the pad?
A) how do I find out?
B) What? I named my account that for a reason its the same as the one Fedora picked.
C)Yes
Sorry I can't give you much info, anything more specific? (what exactly do you mean by oss/proprietary drivers)
Thanks
A. Query your package manager.. I don't use fedora so I'm not sure how, maybe "yum info i8kutils" Check man yum or man rpm for info on how to use your package management system..
B. er... what ? I'm not sure what you are responding to here...
C. post the output of this command... cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver
just type about:config where you would normally type a website address in firefox...
OK so you are using the open source radeon driver for your laptop video..
I would suggest installing the fglrx proprietary driver (if they support your graphics card) and seeing if that will make a difference.
lspci should provide a list of hardware in your machine including the graphics controller. Check the info about ATI's drivers to see if yours is supported.
I don't have any ATI graphics cards so I can't steer you much farther on this project..
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