On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 2:04 AM, L <yuanlux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Takehiko Abe <keke@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> 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 > > thanks, after installation of locally-built xorg-x11-drv-intel, I feel > it fixed partially the problem. The desktop is still intermittently > freezing, but less frequent. > my observations are: > > this is very likely caused by Firefox's npviewer.bin > in my case, this occurred after kenerl upgraded to kernel-2.6.34 > > my temperate work-around is installation of flashblock plugin Well, sadly say, problem is still there. when a web page with some media component opened, most likely, it frozed. I am confident that "Firefox's npviewer.bin" is the prime culprit. I moved to opera, so far so good in terms of viewing videos > > >> -- >> 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 >> > > > > -- > Linux Toys > http://linuxishbell.wordpress.com/ > -- Linux Toys http://linuxishbell.wordpress.com/ -- 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
