GDM Crashes After Latest Xorg Updates for FC2

[H. Dox]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> HD wrote:

>>>
>> I have had a similar but more serious problem after installing the 
>> recent updated mentioned in the bug report. But I am not using nVidia 
>> drivers. I have a Radeon 7000 card and am using the default drivers 
>> that come with FC2.
>>
>> My problem occured yesterday when I tried loging out of KDE. I 
>> recieved an error message saying the greeter had crached. After 
>> clicking OK on the error dialogue the greeter tried to restart but the 
>> error ocurred again. I had to leave for work at that time so I just 
>> shut off the computer. When I arrived home from work I could not get 
>> anything graphical to work. Not even the graphical boot would start. I 
>> them booted into windows and tryed to google for some information on 
>> the problem but didn't find anything useful at that time. So, I took 
>> drastic measures and completely reinstalled FC2. Though a bit of a 
>> pain for other reasons it did solve the problem and all things 
>> graphical are working again. I have since updated everything except 
>> xorg-x11 stuff and everything continues to work. Of course, I'm now 
>> scared to death to updated anything having to do with xorg-x11 :) I 
>> hope this information will help sort out the problem.
>>
>> Also, I am still just in the learning stages of getting to know Linux 
>> and I realize there was probably a better way of getting FC2 to work 
>> again instead of reinstalling it. So, if anyone would like offer 
>> suggestions on how I could have handled this in a better way, please 
>> do :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> HD
>>
>>
> 
> This might be related to some changes introduced in this latest version 
> of X. The problem with the radeon 7200 was experienced by myself and 
> another user. The radeon 7200 is even worse than you describe the radeon 
> 7000 problem. You get system lockups at boot.
> 
> One note: You should probebly file a bug in the xorg-x11 bugtracking 
> system.
> 
> I filed the below bug for development. It might be helpful for them to 
> know that the problem surfaces between version 6.7.0-5 and 6.7.0-9. This 
> should narrow down the offending code, which breaks support for the 
> radeon 7000 and 7200.
> 
> https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1384
> 
> Also, version 6.7.0-5 is still available on the mirror. You might be 
> able to upgrade to this and wait for the bug to be squashed which is in 
> the -9 version.
> 
> Jim
> 

Okay, I was able to find the version 6.7.0-5 on a mirror and have 
upgraded to that. All seems to be okay.

I also filed my very first bug report on this problem.

https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1529

I hope I didn't make too big of a mess of it. I pretty much just said 
what I have posted here since it's the only way I could think to relate 
the problem.

Thanks,
HD