FC5: need help -- redraw glitches, then hangs.

[Jim Cornette]

Dave Peck wrote:
> I switched to the VESA driver. No more hangs, but now I can't get 1600x1200
> resolution.
> 
> Can someone suggest some ModeLine magic here? VESA + Radeon X300 + Samsung
> 213T is the setup. I'm not an xorg.conf ninja.
> 
> It seems others are experiencing this problem; see the "FC5 hangs then
> freeze" thread. In addition to moving to VESA (which appears to work) I
> tried other approaches, like disabling HT -- that didn't have any impact.
> 
> -Dave
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Peck [mailto:c-fedora at delver.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 5:58 PM
> To: 'fedora-list at redhat.com'
> Subject: FC5: need help -- redraw glitches, then hangs.
> 
> My clean install of FC5 is hanging regularly. By hang, I mean that the mouse
> and keyboard become 100% unresponsive and all processes seem to come to a
> complete halt. The only solution is a hard restart.
> 
> I can predict when a hang is imminent: I start to see redraw glitches. For
> example, my desktop background won't get updated when I drag a window, or
> entire apps -- like Firefox -- will fail to redraw.
> 
> My guess is that I'm running into video driver problems. Has anyone seen
> this behavior with FC5, or can anyone give me troubleshooting tips? I
> haven't been able to keep more than ten minutes of uptime because of this
> problem.
> 
> Machine Details:
> 
>   - Asus P5GD2 Deluxe Motherboard 
>   - Intel P4/3GHz
>   - ATI Radeon X300 PCIE
>   - Samsung Syncmaster 213T; using 1600x1200 resolution
>   - Clean install (as in, reformat hard drives) of FC5 + fully yum updated
>   - Machine ran FC4 for over a year without a hitch.
> 
>   If it is of interest, my xorg.conf file is at
>   http://delver.org/files/xorg.conf
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
> 

If I can recall the refresh problem, adding "Option" "NoAccel" to the 
xorg.conf section where the driver is located should work around that 
problem.

running 'info ati' or 'info radeon' might show you the options that 
adjust the display.

The problm that I had a refresh problem with previously was an Intel 
video. The options for radeon might be different. There should be an 
equivelent option though.

Jim

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