X problems

[Karl Larsen]

Jeffrey Ross wrote:
> having problems with X on Fedora 7, these are problems I did not have 
> with FC6.
>
> The big problem is X is locking up, the system continues to run and it 
> accessable via the network, but a CTRL-ALT-BKspace does not restore 
> the X session.
>
> I found in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old the following:
>
> (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
> Error in I830WaitLpRing(), timeout for 2 seconds
> pgetbl_ctl: 0x7ef80001 pgetbl_err: 0x0
> ipeir: 0 iphdr: bf089b31
> LP ring tail: 700 head: 0 len: 1f001 start 0
> Err ID (eir): 0 Err Status (esr): 1 Err Mask (emr): ffffffdf
> instdone: ffe5fafd instdone_1: fffff
> instpm: 0
> memmode: 0 instps: 8001e022
> HW Status mask (hwstam): fffedffe
> IRQ enable (ier): 2 imr: fffe0000 iir: 80
> acthd: 2dd8024 dma_fadd_p: 2dd8100
> ecoskpd: 307 excc: 0
> cache_mode: 6800/180
> mi_arb_state: 44
> IA_VERTICES_COUNT_QW 0/0
> IA_PRIMITIVES_COUNT_QW 0/0
> VS_INVOCATION_COUNT_QW 0/0
> GS_INVOCATION_COUNT_QW 0/0
> GS_PRIMITIVES_COUNT_QW 0/0
> CL_INVOCATION_COUNT_QW 0/0
> CL_PRIMITIVES_COUNT_QW 0/0
> PS_INVOCATION_COUNT_QW 0/0
> PS_DEPTH_COUNT_QW 0/0
> WIZ_CTL 0
> TS_CTL 0  TS_DEBUG_DATA fef7fdf6
> TD_CTL 0 / 0
> space: 129272 wanted 131064
>
> FatalError re-entered, aborting
> lockup
>
>
> The motherboard is an Intel DG965RY with a built in video card lspci 
> reports the VGA controller as:
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G965 Integrated 
> Graphics Controller (rev 02)
>
> I believe one of the screen savers is triggering the bug as it just 
> started happening after I loaded a bunch of screensavers and set it to 
> randomly choose one, plus it only happens when the system brings up a 
> screensaver.
>
> In addition I have noticed that I can not play  video's with mplayer 
> which by default uses xv (?) unless I specify "-vo x11"  in FC6 I 
> didn't have this issue.
>
> I'm guessing that F7 is using a modified or new version of the Intel 
> graphics driver.  Any way to either load the version from FC6 or 
> specify the equivalent driver in Fedora 7?
>
Why not turn off ALL the screen savers and see if that fixes the 
problem? Then we will all know.

Karl