FC3T2: Having to downgrade Xorg 6.8.1 to 6.7.0

[ByteEnable]

Williams Jr, Ernest L. wrote:

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> From: fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Jim Cornette
> Sent: Wed 9/29/2004 11:09 PM
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> Subject: Re: FC3T2: Having to downgrade Xorg 6.8.1 to 6.7.0
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> ByteEnable wrote:
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>>Hi all,
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>>Xorg 6.8.x is not stable on my Radeon Mobility 9000.  I get hangs,
>>display corruption, screen and font artifacts, to the point where the
>>system is not useable.  Its random too.  I went for three days, then I
>>had to reboot, bam, problems all day.  I've bugzilla'ed at Red Hat and
>>Xorg.  I'm not using the transparency feature either.
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> How does one downgrade X? My X does not work at all after the update from rawhide today.
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> I am using NVIDIA hardware
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>>Summary:
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>>Driver  Symptom
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>>Radeon  Screen and font artifacts, display corruption, hangs.
>>fgrlx   Driver=3.12 Works fine until a 3D app is launched or
>>        gnome-font-properties is run, bam, XServer reset.
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>>No problems with either driver with 6.7.0.
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>>Byte
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> The symptoms seem to be the same regarding the i810 card. You still get
> X killed when ctl-alt-Fn to a terminal while X has focus. This is at
> 1024x768 at 24 depth and DRI is enabled.
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> 1400x1050 works good at 24 depth for me, no DRI. I dare not drop to 16
> depth yet at higher resolutions that disable dri.
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> No need to drop back on X for this yet for the 815 card, unless you
> could not work around prior problems with the last release candidate.
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> With another graphics card installed and trying out s-c-display, I could
> not get the radeon and dual-head to configure. Also, with the two cards
> installed (internal 815 and Radeon 7200 PCI) I could not get the 815 to
> go to resolutions above 800x600. Is this a normal side-effect of having
> multiple video cards installed? Or was the higher resolution cut back
> for the 815 card?
> To change resolutions w/ both cards installed, I have to replace
> xorg.conf w/ previously configuration files for higher resolutions.
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> Jim
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I recompiled the xorg-x11-6.7.0-5.src.rpm and reinstalled.

Byte