FC5: need help -- redraw glitches, then hangs.
Dave Peck
c-fedora at delver.org
Thu Jun 8 19:06:04 UTC 2006
I switched to the VESA driver. No more hangs, but now I can't get 1600x1200
resolution.
Can someone suggest some ModeLine magic here? VESA + Radeon X300 + Samsung
213T is the setup. I'm not an xorg.conf ninja.
It seems others are experiencing this problem; see the "FC5 hangs then
freeze" thread. In addition to moving to VESA (which appears to work) I
tried other approaches, like disabling HT -- that didn't have any impact.
-Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Peck [mailto:c-fedora at delver.org]
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 5:58 PM
To: 'fedora-list at redhat.com'
Subject: FC5: need help -- redraw glitches, then hangs.
My clean install of FC5 is hanging regularly. By hang, I mean that the mouse
and keyboard become 100% unresponsive and all processes seem to come to a
complete halt. The only solution is a hard restart.
I can predict when a hang is imminent: I start to see redraw glitches. For
example, my desktop background won't get updated when I drag a window, or
entire apps -- like Firefox -- will fail to redraw.
My guess is that I'm running into video driver problems. Has anyone seen
this behavior with FC5, or can anyone give me troubleshooting tips? I
haven't been able to keep more than ten minutes of uptime because of this
problem.
Machine Details:
- Asus P5GD2 Deluxe Motherboard
- Intel P4/3GHz
- ATI Radeon X300 PCIE
- Samsung Syncmaster 213T; using 1600x1200 resolution
- Clean install (as in, reformat hard drives) of FC5 + fully yum updated
- Machine ran FC4 for over a year without a hitch.
If it is of interest, my xorg.conf file is at
http://delver.org/files/xorg.conf
Thanks,
Dave
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