Intermittent freezing

L yuanlux at gmail.com
Sat Oct 30 15:04:23 UTC 2010


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


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