f10beta frozen screen of death

[David L]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Jim Hayward <jimhayward at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 11:44 -0700, David L wrote:
>> I have two different f10beta systems that intermittently hang.  They
>> appear completely
>> frozen.
<snip>
> Are you seeing any screen corruption? Occasionally I will see some.
On the Dell box with ATI, I see some screen corruption.  It got better after
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464853 was fixed, but
I still see some corruption... usually of icons, but sometimes horizontal
bands in terminals.

>
>> The systems share little in common other than being x86's.  One of
>> them is one of
>> those original Via Lindows boxes Walmart sold several years ago.  The other is a
>> Dell Precision 380 with ATI video.
>>
>
> A home built system here. Probably about three and half years old now.
> It does have an AGP ATI Radeon 9800 PRO. Does your Walmart box also have
> ATI video?

No... the Walmart box has S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266]:

http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_a8699ae2-941e-4529-859d-b910cbd40819

The profile for the Dell box is here:
http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_d49c89b4-8ca6-4c42-9edf-2d7ab3532390

I guess it's possible that the lockups on the two boxes are from unrelated bugs.

Cheers...

          David