On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 21:39 -0400, Jeffrey Ross wrote: > having problems with X on Fedora 7, these are problems I did not have > with FC6. > > The big problem is X is locking up, the system continues to run and it > accessable via the network, but a CTRL-ALT-BKspace does not restore the > X session. > > I found in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old the following: > <snip> > > The motherboard is an Intel DG965RY with a built in video card lspci > reports the VGA controller as: > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G965 Integrated > Graphics Controller (rev 02) > > I believe one of the screen savers is triggering the bug as it just > started happening after I loaded a bunch of screensavers and set it to > randomly choose one, plus it only happens when the system brings up a > screensaver. > > In addition I have noticed that I can not play video's with mplayer > which by default uses xv (?) unless I specify "-vo x11" in FC6 I didn't > have this issue. > > I'm guessing that F7 is using a modified or new version of the Intel > graphics driver. Any way to either load the version from FC6 or specify > the equivalent driver in Fedora 7? > I belive FC6 uses the i810 driver by default, while F7 uses the intel driver by default. Both are available in F7. The intel driver is the "new" driver. Jonathan
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