On Friday 20 February 2009 08:10:02 Tejas Dinkar wrote: > On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Lorenzo Villani sent out 2.0K bytes to say: > > Same problem here, same graphic driver and same adapter. I heard this is > > an intel driver issue (lockups magically disappeared after the switch to > > the 'vesa' driver - ouch! - on my laptop). > > I've switched to vesa as well. > > It's the only thing that prevents the lockups for me. But I'm crying > because all the nice eye candy is missing. > > Xorg -configure :1 && sed 's/intel/vesa/' xorg.conf.new > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > is the simplest way to switch :P. > > If you are still facing lockups, I suggest you guys be very very > careful. It seems like every open file gets some sort of corruption with > the kernel panic. I lost a (nearly everything) on my /home partition > thanks to this, and various config files (most commonly akregator's > config file) kept vanishing. Take a backup of your .kde folder (and > everything else that matters) NOW. > > If this makes any sense to you: > I've noticed that it is slightly safer to press power button once, allow > the kernel to panic, then hold power button again for n secs (to > poweroff), instead of just holding power button. > > Trust me, a message telling you that you need to run fsck on your /home > is not funny. Driver problems a very important to us all. They will stand a better chance of getting sorted if problems are reported. Please check bugzilla, and if no suitable report exists, create one. Anne -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090220/a3ec5ad7/attachment.bin
