Whee, Xorg crash (Fedora 13 2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686)!

Kevin Martin kevintm at ameritech.net
Wed Sep 22 14:13:31 UTC 2010



On 09/22/2010 12:46 AM, Mark Eggers wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:26:11 -0500, Kevin Martin wrote:
>
>> Flash version 10.1.85.3
>> xfce4 window manager
>> 32 bit kernel (as shown in the Xorg.0.log below)
> After a bit of searching, nothing jumps out at me, but I've had no 
> experience with ATI cards. I've seen some similar crashes reported on the 
> gentoo forums as well as a French Fedora 13 forum with no solutions.
>
> Some have advocated not using modeset on booting to avoid the graphical 
> boot screen as a potential cure. I'm not sure why this would crop up in 
> the current kernel (guess reading the release notes would help).
>
> Sorry I don't have any real clue at this point, but it does seem to be 
> (at the moment) an ATI card issue.
>
> /mde/
>
First off, thanks Mark for looking at this.

Second, FWIW, it seems that dropping back to the 2.6.34.6-54.fc13.i686 kernel has fixed the Xorg crashing issue.  Sigh...

Kevin


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