Monday, March 9, 2009, 12:53:19 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 17:10 +0000, Leon Stringer wrote: > In this specific case, as others have said, there are some workarounds > you can try. The emergency one is to use the 'vesa' driver, which will > make X work, but will be rather slow and may not support all the > resolutions you need. You can also create a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file - > running 'Xorg -configure' from runlevel 3 should do this - and then try > either disabling acceleration or switching to XAA rather than EXA > acceleration: > Option "NoAccel" "true" > or > Option "AccelMethod" "XAA" > in the Driver section of the xorg.conf file will do those things. Either > of those may get you going. If so, of course, please add this > information to your bug report(s). Thanks! Adam, I'm already running two other systems in vesa mode because the F10 install did not recognize their built-in ATI video, and they were set that way by the installer. They are slow but usable. I tried vesa with the GX270, but the largest video mode supported was only 600x800. My modifications to the generated Intel Xorg.conf to switch it to vesa didn't work and I ran out of time to diagnose. I've not tried the acceleration workaround lately - I should be able to do so in a week or so. For now, that box is sitting under my desk while my larger space heater (I mean development box/server) must now stay up 7/24 simply for DNS/Samba. I would point out the potential trap with leaving something broken for a long time, and relying on widely published workarounds. It can reduce the likelyhood of many of the folks affected ever testing the fixes when they do arrive. In my experience, a significant number of folks will leave things in the working state until they next do a fresh install of a subsequent release on that box. If they simply update, the workaround might well continue to be used for the life of that box. Al -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
