On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 13:35 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote: > Hi, > > I'm posting here first since I'm not sure against what to file this > bug. Maybe someone has the same issue... > > Since this week-end at least (I hadn't rebooted my laptop in a few > days), after booting my laptop and logging in through gdm, I see the > GNOME slash screen, then I see lots of disk I/O going on for a few > seconds, but then once the splash screen went away but before anything > else appears on the screen (no wallpaper, no panel, only the solid blue > background)... complete freeze. Impossible to switch back to a console > or even ping the system. > > The weird thing is that if I first open a failsafe session, disable > desktop effects with the "desktop-effects" tool, log out, log back into > GNOME and re-enable desktop effects once logged in, everything works > fine, wobbly and all. > > Anyone else seeing this? Does this seem more of an X issue, a GNOME > issue or a compiz issue? :-/ > > My laptop has an ATI Mobility 9600 (r300) and I'm using the default > free radeon driver. > > Matthias > > -- > Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ > Fedora Core release 5.91 (FC6 Test2) - Linux kernel > 2.6.17-1.2617.2.1.fc6 Load : 0.42 0.29 0.32 > I experienced the exact same problem on my Radeon RV240. After turning off and turning back on compiz like you did, the problem is gone, replaced by an equally puzzling one: the Workspace Switcher applet displays tiny versions of each desktop, probably about one quarter the size it should be. tjb -- ======================================================================= | Thomas Baker email: tjb@xxxxxxx | | Systems Programmer | | Research Computing Center voice: (603) 862-4490 | | University of New Hampshire fax: (603) 862-1761 | | 332 Morse Hall | | Durham, NH 03824 USA http://wintermute.sr.unh.edu/~tjb | ======================================================================= -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
