I am not using an nvidia driver. I have an ATI Radeon 7200 and I'm using the stock Fedora driver, "kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.ko". --- Vladimir -- Vladimir G. Ivanovic http://leonora.org/~vladimir Palo Alto, CA 94306 +1 650 678 8014 >>>>> "s" == shrek-m <shrek-m@xxxxxx> writes: s> s> Kevin J. Cummings wrote: s> >> Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: >> >>> I'm disappointed that the random X server hangs are still present in >>> FC3. (I can't find the bug in Bugzilla; I know it's there because I >>> think I commented on it. I wasn't the original filer.) >>> >>> What happens is that X exits abruptly. The screen contains whatever >>> was on it at the time, but of course nothing works. It is possible to >>> log in and start up another X session, but when that session exits, >>> the screen still contains what was on it when X first exited. >>> >>> With FC2 and older kernels, this kind of hang happened a half to a >>> dozen times a day. Now the frequency is down to 1 every other day, or >>> so. >> >> My biggest complaint with the FC2 X hangs is that the keyboard is >> always "dead" (no response, can't change VC to a text window) and >> *most* of the time the mouse is "dead" as well; though I have had a >> couple of hangs in the middle of actively using X and the mouse >> motion remains, mouse clicks are not processed; but most have >> occurred while the system in idle and running a screensaver. Its >> obvious because the screensaver stop changing. The rest of the >> sysytem continues to run normally. My http server still runs, I >> still get email, other processes continue to run. During the X >> hangs, I have to login remotely, and top shows that the "X" process >> is chewing all of the otherwise unused CPU time (usually > 85%), but >> is recoverable if the "X" process is killed (usually requires a >> "kill -9"). My frequency under FC2 is 1 hang every day or two. >> >> I'm interested in knowing how these symptoms change in FC3.... s> s> s> nvidia-driver ?? s> s> i am using rh 9, fedora core 1|2|3 20/6/350 = s> hours_the_day/days_per_week/days in_year without your described s> problems with the NV-driver s> the last time i had such problems was in rh 8.0 with the NVIDIA-driver. s> s> -- s> shrek-m s> s> -- s> fedora-list mailing list s> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx s> To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list s>
