Random Lockups Anyone?

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Fri Feb 20 18:30:21 UTC 2009


On Friday 20 February 2009 16:49:44 James Amundson wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Friday 20 February 2009 02:36:22 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> >> Uh, which is it now? There are only 2 options, XAA or EXA, which one is
> >> the working one?
> >
> > I added 'Option      "AccelMethod" "EXA" ' to the Device/Videocard0
> > section of xorg.conf.  The 'UseAtom-BIOS' line referenced on the userbase
> > page is not relevant on the Acer Aspire One.
>
> Anne's advice is the opposite of mine.
>
> On my machine, a Thinkpad X61, with a "Intel Corporation Mobile
> GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller rev 12", running x86_64
> Fedora 10, I observe the following behaviour:
>
>     AccelMethod = EXA: persistent random X crashes -- uptime never over
> 2-3 hours
>     AccelMethod = XAA: no X crashes in two months
>
> Anne seems to observe something different. The problem may vary with
> hardware.
>
I think that's so, and for the moment, until we know which cards do what, the 
only way is to try it and see.

Anne
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