X still freezes

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Wed Nov 12 13:10:47 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 08:32 +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I thought that one of the benefits of the kernel-based mode setting and
> > reworked VT code in F10 was that one could still use Ctrl-Alt-<Fn> to
> > escape even if X froze up. I guess I must have misunderstood because I
> > just managed to freeze X completely (some combination of showing a flash
> > video and switching desktops, probably hard to reproduce) and had to
> > reset the machine to recover. This is with an Intel 965 video chipset.
> >
> > poc
> >
> >   
> The is some problem with X freezing on intel chipsets.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464866

Thanks.

poc




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