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

[Kevin Martin]

On 09/22/2010 09:13 AM, Kevin Martin wrote:
>
> 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

For anybody interested, the update of the xorg server and common rpm's done today appears to fix the xorg crash that I was experiencing.

Kevin