On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > > But the intel driver is a bit interesting. With compiz enabled I get a > crash quite regularly. X either restarts and puts me back to the login > prompt or locks the machine up (machine might be OK but I have no way > to remote access it via ssh to see). It seems that the crash mostly > happens when alt+tabbing between apps. I think that might be when most > of the cool effects happen (firefox running seems to make that more > regular). There was a long discussion the other day about NMI's on Dell laptops with the ATI driver. I suspect this is a similar problem with the X server, only showing itself in a different driver. > > It also seems some of the backlight stuff is a bit weird. It doesn't > seem to remember the settings any more. The increase doesn't work > until you hit decrease (which initially increases the brightness) and > then its OK. > > Also when compiz is turned off (maybe with it on too but it won't run > long enough) I get a flicker every couple of minutes, sort of like a > slight timing issue, which while not a major issue as its still usable > it makes it annoying. > On my laptop at work, NV driver, when gdm starts up the backlight is turned off. If I switch to runlevel 3 and startx then the backlight remains on. Eventually, even with all the power manager and backlight settings set to 'never', the backlight turns off. I have to reboot the machine. darrell -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
