On Tuesday 08 December 2009, Daniel Stone wrote: >On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 12:14:48AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 07 December 2009, Daniel Stone wrote: >> >And does the problem occur with the radeon (not radeonhd) driver? >> >> I have not checked recently Daniel. The last time I did check, it was >> ok, but radeon was refreshing the screen really slowly, making it >> difficult to scroll in FF and similar apps. I believe the ati module >> makes that choice, but let me check the log, brb. >> >> Hmmm, brb was a rather optimistic statement. Switching >> /etc/X11/xorg.conf to define the radeon driver instead of the radeonhd >> results in an x server crash and no video from either output on the card, >> and is not recoverable with a ctl-alt-bsp. ctl-alt-del gets me a >> boatload of dirty inodes cleaned up messages on the reboot too. And >> once I had to use the hdwe reset to reboot it, I tried it several times >> with the same no signal to the monitor results, I'd guess at less than >> 500 milliseconds after I hit the return on a startx. >> >> So I am back on the radeonhd driver and things are hopefully back to as >> normal as they usually are. >> >> Is this helpful? > >That's obviously quite bad ... if you can file a bug, I'm sure Alex will >get it fixed.
I may well do that, but first I have got to get this system up to F12 since they are not going to fix the openssl exploit for F10 and I have some banking to do. If after I get it up to F12, I still have the problem, yes. And I'm having drive partitioning problems, it won't let me set the drive up the way I want it, fedora seems bound and determined to shove LVM down our throats regardless of how many times we document that LVM might be cute, but it has a failure rate 20x that of std ext3 filesystems. In the meantime the 'hd' version is tolerable and reasonably snappy. >Cheers, >Daniel > Thanks for the interest Daniel. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. -- Richard Bach, "Illusions" _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
