FC2 freezes from time to time
Geoffrey Kransdorf
geoffrey at netapp.com
Tue Sep 28 02:28:57 UTC 2004
> On 27/09/04, at 08:44 -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu <akonstam at trinity.edu> wrote:
>
>
>>> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 04:25:06PM +0900, Geoffrey Kransdorf wrote:
>>
>>>> > I had a problem on my laptop with FC2 locking and freezing. Also,
>>>> > occasionally, the X process would die. I found that all of these
>>>> > problems were fixed when I commented out DPMS in my X11Config file.
>>>> >
>>>> > In /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, find the following line and make sure that it
>>>> > is commented out (i.e. with a leading hash mark.)
>>>> >
>>>> > # Option "DPMS"
>>>> >
>>>> > Of course, your problem may be completely different, so YMMV.
>>
>>> I M COFUSED AS USUSLA. What is a /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file donig in
>>> FC2 which uses xorg?
>
>
> Well he probably referred to /etc/X11/XF86Config. When you do an upgrade
> from FC1->FC2, xorg uses /etc/X11/XF86Config instead of using
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf which would be in a clean install case.
>
>
Yes, that's right. I upgraded from FC1. Also, I use the ATI binary
drivers, which build their own version of the X config script on
installation (using that name). Actually, I'm a little surprised that
the FC2 upgrade scripts don't rename the X config file. I never really
thought about it before.
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list