Re: FC4 Freeze Issue

From: James Wilkinson (fedora_at_westexe.demon.co.uk)
Date: 08/30/05

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    Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:51:22 +0100
To: Tony Crouch <acrouch2@une.edu.au>

    I asked (about a series of crashes):
    > Um. Some 3D drivers (especially closed source drivers) can do it.
    >
    > Is there any pattern to what's happening on the computer? Are you
    > ever at it, or always away?

    Tony Crouch replied:
    > From what I can see there does not seem to be too much consistency
    > with the freezes. The majority of the time the freezes occur under
    > slightly higher than average CPU load (i.e. burning a CD or install a
    > program). However, there have been occasions when the freezes have
    > been while it is sitting (seemingly) idle.
    >
    > My video drivers are the standard drivers that come with FC4. My video
    > card is an ATI IGP 345M.

    I've had problems with lockups with a (PCI) Radeon 9250 (on x86_64), and
    found that commenting out the line
    # Load "dri"
    and changing
    # Driver "radeon"
    to
            Driver "ati"
    in /etc/X11/xorg.conf ditches your 3D support, but gets you stability.
    This might be worth experimenting with (depending on how much you value
    3D).

    Hope this helps,

    James. 

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