The machine was crashing with FC6 (hard).
tail of xdm.log in var/log message said:
(EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable

so I used
sudo rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm

and
yum install yumex

Then I used:
sudo yum install xorg-x11-drv-fglrx kmod-fglrx glx-utils
This put me in the works of hurt:
Transaction Check Error: package kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 is already installed
file /boot/System.map-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 from install of kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 conflicts with file from package kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
file /boot/config-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 from install of kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 conflicts with file from package kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
file /boot/symvers-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.gz from install of kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 conflicts with file from package kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
file /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 from install of kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 conflicts with file from package kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6

So now what?
glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: No

OK, so direct rendering is not installed. Great.

I added to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection
In order to turn off direct rendering. This should stop confusing my xwindows system (since direct rendering is not working anyway).

Testing continues...

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