xorg-x11 in Testing

Jim Cornette fct-cornette at insight.rr.com
Sat Mar 19 22:17:16 UTC 2005


Gene C. wrote:
> I have been having hard X hangs on my dual Athlon system with an ATI Radeon 
> 9200 (RV280).  This has been happening with xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 on an 
> infrequent but constant basis (and there are bugzilla reports which seem to 
> describe the problem).
> 
> Then there were some comments added to the bugzilla reports saying to try the 
> updates in development (rawhide) so I downloaded xorg-x11-6.8.1.903-2.src.rpm 
> and built the packages for my system.  I still got the hangs and still pretty 
> much infrequent but happening.
> 
> Then the Testing update xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.FC3.10test was put in Testing and 
> announced on this list.  So I updated.  Oops, now I got three hangs in a 
> matter of a few hours so I backed off to xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 and the 
> hangs stopped.
> 
> I have updated the report I turned in on the problem -- 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145534


I tried several versions from development, regular updates and now am 
running the testing version on Radeon Mobility U1. The problem that I am 
having is present with all of the Fedora builds I tried. It is possible 
to replace the
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/radeon_dri.so
and the
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ati_drv.o
drivers with versions from working versions. I did the driver 
replacements and each version tested worked fine.
There are also the below two version drivers, but I didn't know about 
their existence and never replaced them.
/usr/X11R6/lib/Server/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o
and
/usr/X11R6/lib/Server/modules/drivers/ati_drv.o

OR you could bite the bullet and add "NoAccel" to xorg.conf and watch 
the slow screen when scrolling. Currently, I'm running testing with 
stock content (no foreign drivers from different builds) and avoiding 
switching to virtual terminals for now.

The changes applied to the test version did not help out my radeon type 
either. I still need to test o the 815 card for the testing version. The 
rawhide version does not work again for this video card. Hopefully the 
testing version works for this video card.

Where to file bugs for testing is a good question. I thought that 
peformance issues for testing were discussed on this list.

Jim

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