X problems

[Jeffrey Ross]

Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> 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
>   

How can I specify the older driver?  even if it has less capabilities 
the capabilities are more than sufficient for my purposes.