>> If your laptop uses Intel graphics, the culprit might be: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528312 >> >> I had a similar problem and was able to fix it by undoing the fedora >> patch for xorg-x11-drv-intel as suggested by Colin Macdonald: >> > > I had similar problem with HP NC8000 (fedora 13 2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686 > #1 SMP). I found the desktop got frozen when firefox is playing some > video stuff. My problem was a bit different in that firefox is not involved. So no guarantee. Please refer to the above bug #528312. The bug report is long and there are multiple fixes proposed. > > could you give a detailed steps on how you did this? thank > The origin: Comment #70 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528312#c70 Short version: 1. Downloaded xorg-x11-drv-intel source. 2. Build it without uevent.patch Long version: 1. Downloaded xorg-x11-drv-intel source. $ yumdownloader --source xorg-x11-drv-intel 2. Install packages required for building the package. $ sudo yum-builddep xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.11.0-5.fc13.src.rpm 3. Create ~/rpmbuild tree and install src files there $ rpmdev-setuptree $ rpm -ivh xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.11.0-5.fc13.src.rpm 4. Move to ~/rpmbuild $ cd ~/rpmbuild 5. Remove uevent.patch Delete (or comment out) the two lines from SPECS/xorg-x11-drv-intel.spec : "Patch60: uevent.patch" and "%patch60 -p1 -b .uevent" 6. Build $ rpmbuild -bb SPECS/xorg-x11-drv-intel.spec 7. Install $ sudo rpm -i --force RPMS/XXX/xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.11.0-5.fc13.XXX.rpm -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines