-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/2009 11:26 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Kalev Lember wrote: > >> Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> sadly, no ... it's been a busy weekend. i'll see if i can get >>> to it this aft. although the more common symptom at this point is >>> not FF dying, but FF locking up the entire system, so that's going >>> to be a bit trickier to debug. >> What video card do you have? It's possible that your video driver is >> buggy and you are getting GPU lockups. It might make sense to try to >> rule out a video driver problem by trying the reproduce your >> problems with VESA driver instead. > > good point, so here's what i did. while running with the "radeon" > driver, i edited xorg.conf and changed "radeon" to "vesa" but, before > i rebooted, i tried to browse over to my nemesis, linux-kvm.org. not > surprisingly, still using the radeon driver, that page *almost* loaded > again, then locked up my system. > > i power-cycled and rebooted (this time loading the vesa driver), > which brought me up to a 1024x768 desktop rather than 1280x800, at > which point i browsed over to linux-kvm.org and it worked just fine. > so it's clearly(?) something with the radeon driver. > I'm using the radeon driver on a ATI 3650 card (r635) and that site comes up fine. Does adding "nomodeset" the the kernel line in grub and using radeon change anything. Kevin - -- Get my public GnuPG key from http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x7D0BD5D1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAknjd2EACgkQ6w2kMH0L1dEMegCdFKw/ue/wwtzeRBFxfz30S5ig B1MAn0BR+a9m9UTxtRwBAFeZaFAmnAkw =SrzI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
