Sleepy X after today's rawhide update

[Adam Huffman]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Andrew Parker
<andrewparker at bigfoot.com> wrote:
> After today's updates, I find that if I don't press a key or move the
> mouse for 2-5 seconds then the display freezes until I generate some
> input.
>
> Its rather like a ^S for X.  Its not that the display doesn't get
> updated, the processes generating output get held up, then continue as
> soon as I generate input.
>
> This happens immediately on login, so the login never completes unless
> I waggle the mouse.
>
> Curiously, a screensaver that I tried doesn't suffer from the same problem.
>
> This is on a Dell Inspiron 1410 laptop which has the following display adapter:
>
> 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960
> Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
>
> xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.4.2-8.fc10.i386
>

I saw something similar on a Vaio with roughly equivalent hardware.
Wondered whether it was kernel related as booting to the -314 kernel
seemed to fix it.