Troy,
have one of these too........hard to get working but if they start working its 
great......
make sure all of your power management features are OFF.......
search the list.....
Dexter Fillmore and I had a good discussion on this many a times.........
is your box by any chance dual processor...????

dan

> I have been wrestling with this problem for quite some time now and I am totally 
>clueless.  I've got an ATI Radeon 64MB DDR VIVO video card, and I'm trying to run 
>Mandrake 8.0 with X.  I have no problem booting/running Linux but when I 'startx' I 
>get a blank screen with no errors - my monitor appears to go into 'standby' when I 
>try to run X - at which point I loose all control of my system and become unable to 
>feed any commands to my OS.  I've tried just about every release of Xfree86 I could 
>find (the most recent one being 4.1.0), none of which have solved this problem (even 
>after configuring my X server with VERY modest settings).  I have no fancy 
>configuration on my video card (I have only my monitor plugged connected to it, no 
>special VIVO peripherals) and have had no problems whatsoever installing and running 
>X on other computers on my LAN (all of which have less sophisticated hardware...fyi). 
> I'm somewhat new to Linux and I cannot find anything about this problem anyw!
here. Please Help!
> 
> ~Troy
> 


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