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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