Gene C. wrote:
I have been having hard X hangs on my dual Athlon system with an ATI Radeon
9200 (RV280). This has been happening with xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 on an
infrequent but constant basis (and there are bugzilla reports which seem to
describe the problem).
Then there were some comments added to the bugzilla reports saying to try the
updates in development (rawhide) so I downloaded xorg-x11-6.8.1.903-2.src.rpm
and built the packages for my system. I still got the hangs and still pretty
much infrequent but happening.
Then the Testing update xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.FC3.10test was put in Testing and
announced on this list. So I updated. Oops, now I got three hangs in a
matter of a few hours so I backed off to xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 and the
hangs stopped.
I have updated the report I turned in on the problem --
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145534
I tried several versions from development, regular updates and now am
running the testing version on Radeon Mobility U1. The problem that I am
having is present with all of the Fedora builds I tried. It is possible
to replace the
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/radeon_dri.so
and the
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ati_drv.o
drivers with versions from working versions. I did the driver
replacements and each version tested worked fine.
There are also the below two version drivers, but I didn't know about
their existence and never replaced them.
/usr/X11R6/lib/Server/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o
and
/usr/X11R6/lib/Server/modules/drivers/ati_drv.o
OR you could bite the bullet and add "NoAccel" to xorg.conf and watch
the slow screen when scrolling. Currently, I'm running testing with
stock content (no foreign drivers from different builds) and avoiding
switching to virtual terminals for now.
The changes applied to the test version did not help out my radeon type
either. I still need to test o the 815 card for the testing version. The
rawhide version does not work again for this video card. Hopefully the
testing version works for this video card.
Where to file bugs for testing is a good question. I thought that
peformance issues for testing were discussed on this list.
Jim
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