Steam freezing with Fedora 25(probably GPU issues)
Hello! I'm having a bit of a problem. My workstation is an old Vaio notebook, with AMD CPU and a ATI Radeon HD 4200 for GPU. I never expected it to play anything, but since I've bought it, I've used Windows and it served me just fine. Two years ago I started using Linux, and I already knew I had to give up some hobbies if I were to use it 100%. Started using exclusively Fedora, at that time, in the 23rd version, after some months of distro hopping. Anyway, I experimented a lot, and after some time, learned Steam had a Linux version, and I started using it. It was pretty good, I could play some low requirements games. I upgraded to F24 and it kept on great, no problems at all. I thought maybe I could get a boost in some games if I got the proprietary drivers for my GPU, but after some fiddling and breaking my DE, I gave up and kept using mesa. Even after all that, I could still play games just fine. But Fedora 25 came and since it was some time since I cleaned my HD, I wiped everything and made a fresh Fedora 25 install. Everything's great, but I believe something's wrong with my GPU driver or something. Whenever I put some strain in it, it freezes whatever program I'm using. For example, playing games in Steam, I start playing something, or just browsing the client, it randomly freezes and I have to SIGKILL the process and open it again. Some rare times, when watching something in Netflix, it freezes the same way. I believe it probably has something to do with GPU drivers. Maybe because of the version update? How could I go on to solve this? Using an older driver? Is there a easy way to use proprietary graphics? Many many thanks in advance
Edit: I'm using Cinnamon.
