Fedora 4 on Dell Optiplex GX270 Graphics Hangs after update;

[Jim Cornette]

akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:

>On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 09:42:48AM -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
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>>>Mirco
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>>Do not update to the latest xorg-x11 version. There is a problem within 
>>the new packages. I have a gx270 w/ the same graphics card, but did not 
>>upgrade to the new version of X yet. The system works great without the 
>>upgrade.
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>>There is an option which you can add to the xorg.conf file that may 
>>help. Add option "NoAccel" to the section that references your video 
>>driver "i810". I don't know if this will work, but it sounds similar to 
>>an old problem with the Intel "i810" driver refresh problem.
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>>Jim
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>What latest version are you referring to? I updated only 3 days ago
>and have had no problem.
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The problem seems to be narrowed down to Intel 830 and above video 
cards. The problem seems to happen on FC3 and FC4 upgrades of X. I 
personally tried out the upgraded xorg-x11 on an FC3 system with an 
Intel 815 and did not note any problems, evan after a reboot to set 
everything fresh. I'm upgrading the system to FC4 to see if the FC4 
upgraded X works still or the problem is specific to Intel video cards 
from Intel 810 up to the better video cards. I'm guessing that the 810 
and 815 chipsets are immune to the breakage and that the higher order 
cards will be broken.

A list of current bugs for this upgrade of X are below.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168561
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168562
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168564
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168622
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168623
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168631

Jim

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