X problems

[Jonathan Dieter]

On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 21:39 -0400, 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:
> 
<snip>
> 
> 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?
> 
I belive FC6 uses the i810 driver by default, while F7 uses the intel
driver by default.  Both are available in F7.  The intel driver is the
"new" driver.

Jonathan
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