F11 + XFCE stability vs F10 + Gnome?

Terry Barnaby terry1 at beam.ltd.uk
Sun Jul 26 10:59:13 UTC 2009


On 07/26/2009 10:54 AM, John Austin wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 18:46 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>> People,
>>
>> I upgraded from F10 + Gnome to F11 + XFCE and found that I am getting
>> fairly frequent screen lockups which require a remote shutdown and at
>> least on one occasion required a power reset.  I am having heat problems
>> though so I am not sure if the problems are related to the upgrade or
>> deteriorating hardware.  Does anyone know of stability problems with XFCE?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Phil.
>> --
>> Philip Rhoades
>>
>> GPO Box 3411
>> Sydney NSW	2001
>> Australia
>> E-mail:  phil at pricom.com.au
>>
>
> Mine has been very stable but I did a clean install not upgrade
> Linux naxos 2.6.29.6-213.fc11.x86_64
>
> John
>
There are a few graphics driver issues in F11 due to the large
changes going on in X-Windows currently that can lock up the XServer.
Different graphics cards are affected more than others. Certainly
I have lockups with some ATI cards ...

Terry




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