Re: F11 + XFCE stability vs F10 + Gnome?

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On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Philip Rhoades<phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?
>
There are other log files in /var/log and one of them is Xorg.0.log ,
there might be something useful in there...maybe.

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