I upgraded my laptop (an HP Pavilion N5210) to FC3.
I had some trouble with the X set up during installation, so I went text
install, and proceeded. After a bit of a trial, it got there, and looked all
right.
X soon proved a bit of a problem. At first, I'd start it, and it'd work for a
minute, then freeze, and lock the machine.
I forced SWCursor on (this was needed in previous X installations on this
machine), and that didn't help the freezing. Then I tried "ShadowStatus on".
This stopped the lock up, but it still freezes for perhaps 10 seconds, and
then comes back.
I ran top over an ssh connection to my desktop. What happens is the X server
eats up 99.9% of the CPU for a few seconds, then suddenly backs off, and
things proceed.
Seems like a race to me.
The bug is reproducable by a number of things. One that seems to work
consistently is to start up2date-config, and flip through the tabs.
Scrolling quickly in firefox is another one, though it's a bit less consistent.
I have the most recent version of the xorg release on the machine
(xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 and friends).
Here's my xorg.conf:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse0"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Laptop Display Panel 800x600"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 31.5 - 37.9
VertRefresh 40.0 - 70.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "HWCursor" # [<bool>]
Option "SWCursor" "on" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "Rotate" # [<str>]
#Option "UseBIOS" # [<bool>]
#Option "LCDClock" # <freq>
Option "ShadowStatus" "on" # [<bool>]
#Option "CrtOnly" # [<bool>]
#Option "TvOn" # [<bool>]
#Option "PAL" # [<bool>]
#Option "ForceInit" # [<bool>]
#Option "Overlay" # [<str>]
#Option "TransparencyKey" # [<str>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "savage"
VendorName "S3 Inc."
BoardName "86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV"
BusID "PCI:1:1:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Generic Laptop Display Panel 800x600"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
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