[GTALUG] Fedora 22 Live Workstation Install - no fglrx - no pdftk

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 07:59:23AM -0400, Russell Reiter wrote:
> I recently acquired another older MB, ASUStek M3A78-EM, Athlon 64 X2
> Dual-Core, 4Gb ram & onboard Radeon and I thought I'd give the latest
> Fedora Live a try. It installed well enough and Gnome pretty much
> worked except for the lack of fglrx in the open source drivers. In
> fact KDE Plasma doesn't work at all.
> 
> In the Gnome desktop however, any intensive video apps such as VLC etc
> overheat the CPU and crash the unit. It looks like I'd have to
> backport X in order to install the proprietary Catalyst drivers for
> this particular GPU. HTML 5 videos on the net do work, but eventually
> the unit overheats and dies. I switched to lightDM and that's a little
> better but still not up to speed.

If your system overheats and crashes, then you have a hardware problem
to fix, NOT a software problem.  Now if it crashes, that could be
software, but overheating is not.

Clean the dust out of the fans and make sure they are all working.
Maybe one of the sticks of ram is failing, which could cause it to crash
and mess up the video.

(Any hardware that relies on software to do just the right thing to
manage temperature is doomed to fail).

-- 
Len Sorensen