F11 + XFCE stability vs F10 + Gnome?

[Philip Rhoades]

People,


On 2009-07-26 20:59, Terry Barnaby wrote:
> On 07/26/2009 10:54 AM, John Austin wrote:
>> On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 18:46 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>>> People,
>>>
>>> I upgraded from F10 + Gnome to F11 + XFCE and found that I am getting
>>> fairly frequent screen lockups which require a remote shutdown and at
>>> least on one occasion required a power reset. I am having heat problems
>>> though so I am not sure if the problems are related to the upgrade or
>>> deteriorating hardware. Does anyone know of stability problems with
>>> XFCE?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Phil.
>>
>>
>> Mine has been very stable but I did a clean install not upgrade
>> Linux naxos 2.6.29.6-213.fc11.x86_64
>>
>> John
>>
> There are a few graphics driver issues in F11 due to the large
> changes going on in X-Windows currently that can lock up the XServer.
> Different graphics cards are affected more than others. Certainly
> I have lockups with some ATI cards ...
>
> Terry


I should have said I did a clean install as well.

The lockups are happening every couple/few days but there is nothing in 
/var/log/messages about it - is there some sort of logging of the video 
driver I can do to help debug the problem?

Thanks,

Phil.
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