No separate graphics card. It's a Silicon Integrated Systems (SIS) chipset. I had been using the default "sis" drivers. In another forum I read that (paraphrasing here) if you are having problems with the sis drivers, try using the generic vesa drivers instead. I did that (replaced "sis" with "vesa" in xorg.conf) and that immediately resolved all my problems. Bob St. John On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 10:19 -0500, Javier Perez wrote: > > > On 2/22/07, Petar Nedyalkov <bu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 13 February 2007, Bob St John wrote: > > Folks, > > > > I have an intermittent (but frequent) problem with FC6. At > first I > > thought it was a hardware problem, but now I don't think it > is. > > > > This is a dual boot system. Windows XP does not crash at > all, but FC6 > > crashes frequently. > > > > uname -a output: Linux Linux 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon > Oct 16 > > 14:39:22 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > > Other facts: > > - Memtest completes multiple passes without detecting any > problems > > - Both FC6 and WinXP are on the same hard disk (and since > WinXP works > > fine I don't think it's a disk or disk controller problem.) > > - Same logic as above for the power supply. > > - Logging in text mode causes no problems; logging in with > either GNOME > > or KDE crashes the system 99% of the time after a short > period of time. > > - The other 1% of the time FC6 seems stable for at least > several hours. > > In fact earlier this week it was up for 3 or 4 days with > relatively > > heavy usage with no problems. > > - Periodically, in GNOME, straight but zig-zagged brown > lines appear on > > the display. > > - As root, I can bring up the KDE environment but not the > GNOME > > environment. As other users I can bring up both GNOME and > KDE. > > - The crashes happen most frequently when I'm using > Evolution, but since > > I use that more than anything else this may not be very > indicative. > > - When crashes occur the display freezes but the mouse moves > freely. > > - When crashes occur the only thing I can do is physically > power off the > > machine. When I turn it back on it boots quickly with only > this > > indication of errors: "usb 1-3: cannot allocate device 2 > error -110" or > > something close to that. > > - I don't know too much about Linux, but I see no error > messages from > > dmesg or in /var/log/messages > > - Thinking that this has something to do with X11, I have > deleted the > > xorg.conf file and rebuilt it with system-config-display > (several > > times.) > > > > So I'm at a loss at resolving this problem. Any > suggestions? > > > > Thanks . . . > > I have the same problem but I haven't investigated it yet. I > think the reason > for this freeze may be the ATI proprietary drivers because > I've had similar > problems in the past and moving to a new version of the fglrx > driver > stabilizes the system. Since I use drivers packed from Livna > and I'm don't > know what's your graphics card - please share this info with > us. > > I'll further investigate it today. > > > > > Bob St. John > > > > -- > Cyberly yours, > Petar Nedyalkov > Devoted Orbitel Fan :-) > > PGP ID: 7AE45436 > PGP Public Key: http://bu.orbitel.bg/pgp/bu.asc > PGP Fingerprint: 7923 8D52 B145 02E8 6F63 8BDA 2D3F 7C0B 7AE4 > 5436 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > My system was SiS 630. Don't know if it helps > > > > > > -- > ------------------------------ > /\_/\ > |O O| pepebuho@xxxxxxxxxxx > ~~~~ Javier Perez > ~~~~ While the night runs > ~~~~ toward the day... > m m Pepebuho watches > from his high perch. > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
