On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:21:41 +0000, I Beartooth wrote: [....] > I'll keep trying a little longer, in hopes of a clue to whether > the trouble is in Galeon a/o other browsers, or in F9, or my hardware -- > or at my local access provider. > > Meanwhile, Frank Murphy has kindly emailed a whole xorg.conf > designed specifically for this monitor. I have moved the old one out of > the way, and created a new one copied from his email. I'll log out and > back in in a little while, and report how it does. Disaster -- but I have no idea whether Frank's xorg.conf had anything at all to do with it. That machine has been going into occasional snits lately -- acting as if it were over its head in cold molasses. Small example : a time or two, on reboot, it got as far as "Stand by for reboot" -- and then went without any further sign of activity for six whole minutes, by the sweep second hand on my atomic wristwatch. Another example: one time I left it doing nothing visible, ran into town, and did errands for a couple of hours. When I got home, it had finally done the next thing -- and was stuck again. It does it under both F8 and F9 -- but not XP (which is on the other hard drive). I can't even tell whether it's hitting an endless 100% cpu loop, or heating something up in the hardware. But I have asked a young friend who does computer repair & maintenance for a living to come by some evening this week, with his testing tools. Whatever the reason, when it does that, it doesn't respond to Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, nor to Ctrl-Alt-Delete, nor yet to the reset button, nor even to the power button. I have to literally pull the plug on it. Then when I restore electricity, sometimes it comes back still in the snit, and sometimes not. So I haven't yet managed to give the new xorg.conf anything like a real test yet, and don't know when I'll be able to. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2.0.3, Epiphany 2.20, Opera 9.27, Firefox 2.0 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
