Intermittent freezing

L yuanlux at gmail.com
Tue Nov 2 03:57:25 UTC 2010


On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 2:04 AM, L <yuanlux at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Takehiko Abe <keke at gol.com> wrote:
>>>> If your laptop uses Intel graphics, the culprit might be:
>>>>
>>>>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528312
>>>>
>>>> I had a similar problem and was able to fix it by undoing the fedora
>>>> patch for xorg-x11-drv-intel as suggested by Colin Macdonald:
>>>>
>>>
>>> I had similar problem with HP NC8000 (fedora 13 2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686
>>> #1 SMP). I found the desktop got frozen when firefox is playing some
>>> video stuff.
>>
>> My problem was a bit different in that firefox is not involved. So no
>> guarantee. Please refer to the above bug #528312. The bug report is
>> long and there are multiple fixes proposed.
>>
>>>
>>> could you give a detailed steps on how you did this? thank
>>>
>>
>> The origin:
>>
>>  Comment #70
>>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528312#c70
>>
>> Short version:
>>
>>  1. Downloaded xorg-x11-drv-intel source.
>>  2. Build it without uevent.patch
>>
>> Long version:
>>
>> 1. Downloaded xorg-x11-drv-intel source.
>>
>>   $ yumdownloader --source xorg-x11-drv-intel
>>
>> 2. Install packages required for building the package.
>>
>>   $ sudo yum-builddep xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.11.0-5.fc13.src.rpm
>>
>> 3. Create ~/rpmbuild tree and install src files there
>>
>>   $ rpmdev-setuptree
>>   $ rpm -ivh xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.11.0-5.fc13.src.rpm
>>
>> 4. Move to ~/rpmbuild
>>
>>   $ cd ~/rpmbuild
>>
>> 5. Remove uevent.patch
>>
>>   Delete (or comment out) the two lines from
>>   SPECS/xorg-x11-drv-intel.spec :
>>
>>   "Patch60: uevent.patch"
>>
>>   and
>>
>>   "%patch60 -p1 -b .uevent"
>>
>> 6. Build
>>
>>   $ rpmbuild -bb SPECS/xorg-x11-drv-intel.spec
>>
>> 7. Install
>>
>>   $ sudo rpm -i --force RPMS/XXX/xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.11.0-5.fc13.XXX.rpm
>
> thanks, after installation of locally-built xorg-x11-drv-intel, I feel
> it fixed partially the problem. The desktop is still intermittently
> freezing, but less frequent.
> my observations are:
>
> this is very likely caused by Firefox's npviewer.bin
> in my case, this occurred after kenerl upgraded to kernel-2.6.34
>
> my temperate work-around is installation of flashblock plugin


Well, sadly say, problem is still there. when a web page with some
media component opened, most likely, it frozed. I am confident that
"Firefox's npviewer.bin" is the prime culprit. I moved to opera, so
far so good in terms of viewing videos


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