On Thursday 03 September 2009 23:51:50 Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 09/03/2009 10:28 AM, James Wilkinson wrote: > > Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> The last time I had a system lock-out was several > >> weeks ago, and just today, I experienced another. > > > > Which graphics card are you running? > > Onboard Intel 945G/GZ chipset > > > Which driver? > > Latest from Fedora updates. I believe the last two lines explain the issue. Search the list archives and the internet --- the Intel graphics drivers became more than unusable, since Fedora 10 time (basically, with the transition from XAA to EXA). The situation has improved significantly by now, in the sense that today the driver locks up on a monthly basis rather than every 15 minutes, and the luckiest people do not experience any more lockups at all. The Intel drivers are going through a major code rewriting, and at some point in future may become stable enough again. Until then, consider yourself lucky enough if it hangs only once per month. Reboot and continue. You also might try to force the old, XAA acceleration, or disable 3D acceleration completely, in xorg.conf. This might eliminate the lockups, while at the same time degrade performance of the graphics card (and Intel doesn't have too much performance to begin with, anyway...). Or you may look inside /var/log/Xorg.0.log* to see if there is any backtrace of X or similar, and work from there. Of course, maybe I am barking up the wrong tree, it is possible that the problem lies elsewhere. But given that you have Intel graphics, X logs are the first place to look for signs of trouble. HTH, :-) Marko -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
