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To: olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx, "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: Re: X locks up after a random time

From: "Paulo Cavalcanti" <promac@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 21:10:48 -0200

Cc: Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxxxx>

In-reply-to: <933106.81937.qm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

References: <200901032212.24111.vvmarko@xxxxxxxxxxx> <933106.81937.qm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reply-to: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

--- On Sat, 1/3/09, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > You can try using
> >
> > Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
> >
> > in your xorg.conf to see if there is any difference (I
> have never tried).
>
> What was the command to generate xorg.conf? I saw it here
> in some post some
> time ago, but can't find it now...

boot into level 3, login as root
# Xorg -configure
creates a file /root/xorg.conf.new
test it with directions given something like X -???
then if it works, posts mouse pointer in about middle of screen, copy it over to /etc/X11 directory
# cp xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

>
> Also, in which Section of xorg.conf shoud I put the above
> option?

This I am not sure, but maybe in the section previous to Monitor section ?
>

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Videocard0"
        Driver        "intel"
       Option       "AccelMethod" "XAA"
EndSection

--
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ

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