I have a Fedora Core 6 system that I just installed on an AIMB-330 motherboard (it's an SBC from Advantek). It generally seems to work, except for irregular (but frequent) system lockups when X windows starts. When the system locks there is some junk at the top of the screen (and it looks like it's in video mode) and the box stops responding to ping and all active SSH sessions go dead. Configuration notes: I've tried several tweaks to the configuration. At the moment I'm running with the attached xorg.conf file, which only loads the 'bitmap' module. This was done to eliminate the other modules as possible sources of the problem. The built in video on this board does support two monitors (FC6 is NOT configured to support them). The driver is 'via' and the chipset is reported as CLE266 (line 155 of attached log file). That jibes with My test configuration is to bring the system up in runlevel 3 and run startx as root with an empty ~/.Xclients file. This causes the X server to start up and then shut down, so I can run startx repeatedly and quickly. I have also run the system with a 'reboot every 10 minutes' cron job (booting into runlevel 5), and it will occasionally hang at startup in the same manner. It's just quicker to get it to fail with the startx trick. The same sort of hang was present under FC1 on this system as well. I've googled around a bit and can't quite make head nor tail out of this mess. I've attached the Xorg.0.log file from the latest hang to this e-mail (it looks pretty much the same as previous non-hang log files. Could be that I didn't get a log in the hang case this time). Any pointers to appropriate clues would be appreciated. This problem has been troubling our systems for some time now, and I've finally been assigned to hunt it down. I have the feeling that there is some reasonable way to debug this, I just don't know what it is. Thanks! -- Michael Kohne mhkohne@xxxxxxxxx
# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "via" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection #this section didn't exist before Section "Module" Load "bitmap" EndSection
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