fc7-t4 - xorg issues
Joshua Andrews
josh at wavefood.com
Tue May 8 19:14:37 UTC 2007
Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
>
>
>> I have included the vnc module in X configuration but any attempt to
>> connect to the server via vncviewer results in X crashing. In
>> the screen
>> section of xorg.conf I have set 'Option "securityTypes"
>> "None"' which
>> works fine for enabling remote connections in FC3 - FC5.
>>
>> Also, I am unable to use blender because the interface does not draw
>> fully or correctly. And xawtv only works after a fresh boot,
>> after the
>> system has been up and used for a good time the output is
>> black though
>> audio still works.
>>
>> My video card is a Radeon 7200.
>>
>>
> I have had similar issues on FC6 and beyond. The default xorg.conf
> file does not have a modules section. It is determining what to
> load by other means. When I added the section with just a
> module vnc statement, it dropped loading some other modules which
> caused errors. My workaround was to scan the /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> to see what modules were loaded and then put them in the modules
> section. The operation is still a bit flakey. It does not work
> as well as it did in fc2-fc5. I get a lot of screen artifacts.
>
> I raised this question on both this list and the Xorg list with
> no usable results. Maybe I will try the VNC list. There is
> a related bugzilla, but it has not gone anywhere.
>
> Bob Styma
> Phoenix, AZ
>
>
I removed the "Module" section from xorg.conf and now when I connect via
vncviewer KDE desktop sharing automatically starts --so that was
probably why X was crashing when I had the vnc module loaded.
Changing xorg.conf did not help bender, it is still pretty much unusable.
-J
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