Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > If you like you can check /var/log/Xorg.x.xxx. I ran into a similar > situation to this recently when I was installing FC5 on a system that > had a motherboard video chipset with a new graphics card installed. The > system seems to have trouble discerning between the two videos. I > remember Nvidia having a procedure that covers this, where you look up > the pci identifiers with lspci and then put that into > the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. I'll have to look up the installation text > file for the nvidia stuff to get the details so I can fix this problem I > have. > > LX Following advice given elsewhere in this thread, I tried the 32-bit version of FC5 instead of the 64-bit version. Voila! I don't know why it worked. My suspicions center around some issue with the I810 driver, which was what the install had configured to use with the Intel 910GL chipset that my system uses. That's my guess because the system hangs always occurred when it was time to re-draw the entire screen. I suppose I should enter a report in Bugzilla, but if I were a dev I would not find the small amount of information that I can offer up to be very helpful. Alas. Almost as sad as the fact that I have to run the 32-bit version of FC5 on a 64-bit system is the fact that it appears that the 32-bit install is quite a bit zippier than a working 64-bit install on a different system that has the same amount of the exact same memory and a significantly faster processor. The system with 32-bit FC5 has a cheapo 2.66 GHz Pentium CPU; the system with 64-bit FC5 has an AMD 3700+ CPU. It's been a learning experience about Linux innards, so not all is lost. :-) Thanks for your help as I worked my way through this. I hope I can return the favor some day. Debbie
