On 09/06/2009 10:11 PM, Tony Nelson wrote:
On 09-09-06 13:20:31, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090803
Fedora/3.5.2-2.fc11 Firefox/3.5.2
After extensive testing with the divide& conquer
method, I have discovered that FireFox is causing
all sorts of hissy-fits, the worst, being a complete
system lockout, once per day, requiring a hard-reboot.
This is cause during inactivity, and no, it is NOT the
Gnome screen-saver. As long as FF is NOT running,
I used my system for 1 week, gnome screen-saver w/
random - not a single lockout, no problems.
The second worse part about FF is the rendering of
the graphics are horrible - extra black lines vertically,
horizontally, both on forums with tables, and some
weird characters every now and then.
I also see font rendering artifacts, mostly in Firefox, but in other
apps as well. I blame the video driver, possibly the EXA acceleration,
though I haven't tried XAA yet (per `man radeon`). I have an old ATI
Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] rev 0. It could be that your lockups
have the same cause.
I also had quite a lot of lock-ups with a system using an ATI R200 based
graphics chip (and issues with a R300 ATI stsrem). I suspect that the
fact that you use Firefox a lot leads you to suspect Firefox although the
problem affects many other apps ...
In my case compiling and using the latest freedesktop drm/mesa/xf86-video-ati
graphics driver code from git sources fixed the issues.
Unfortunately there have been no drm/mesa/xf86-video-ati updates for
Fedora 11 yet ...
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