xorg-x11 update may have broken my system

[Jim Cornette]

Alex Janssen wrote:

> I ran "yum update xorg*" as soon as I got home tonight and the update 
> fixed the problem.   I new these guys were working on it hard.  They 
> wanted me to be able to show off linux to my friends without 
> embarrassment.
>
> Thanks Xorg.
>
> This is hard on my nerves, though.
>
> Alex
>
Both Kristian and Mike seemed to resolve this issue quickly (and others 
behnd the scene, if any). The explanation of the problem in the bug 
report presented was informative to understand what exactly went wrong 
and what actions are being taken to make X to not have mysterious 
lockups that happen for no known reason and with no easy way to diagnose 
what exactly is going wrong. I believe the patch related to pci control 
governed by the kernel and not directly addressed by the X server was 
where X broke. I guess support for a wider range of Intel chipsets was 
part of the upgrade also. Does anyone have later model Intel graphics 
that now works?
Also, out of curiousity, those wth Intel 810 or 815, was X broken with 
the previous security release? My card worked, I am just trying to 
figure out if it was my resolution settings (1280x1024 at 24) or if the 
810/815 cards were not broken for others either. (1024x768 at 16 for example).

For the person having the Quake tournament, good luck now since X should 
be working again.

At least now your friends will be able to see how Fedora, or Linux 
distros in general are supposed to work.

Jim

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