F11: Firefox v3.5.2-2 causes daily system lockouts.

[Tony Nelson]

On 09-09-06 13:20:31, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> 
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090803 
> Fedora/3.5.2-2.fc11 Firefox/3.5.2
> 
> After extensive testing with the divide & conquer
> method, I have discovered that FireFox is causing
> all sorts of hissy-fits, the worst, being a complete
> system lockout, once per day, requiring a hard-reboot.
> This is cause during inactivity, and no, it is NOT the
> Gnome screen-saver.  As long as FF is NOT running,
> I used my system for 1 week, gnome screen-saver w/
> random - not a single lockout, no problems.
> 
> The second worse part about FF is the rendering of
> the graphics are horrible - extra black lines vertically,
> horizontally, both on forums with tables, and some
> weird characters every now and then.

I also see font rendering artifacts, mostly in Firefox, but in other 
apps as well.  I blame the video driver, possibly the EXA acceleration, 
though I haven't tried XAA yet (per `man radeon`).  I have an old ATI 
Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] rev 0.  It could be that your lockups 
have the same cause.

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