X occasionally freezes

[Richard Körber]

Hi!

> Every once in a while X freezes - no effect from keyboard of
> mouse clicks.  The only fix seems to be rebooting.
> This is with the Intel 4500 HD, Gnome.  Compiz enabled (though
> it has frozen before, without Compiz, IIRC).

A combination of Bug 474624 [1] and Bug 465884 [2] seem to make F10 on 
Intel graphics based machines pretty unusable. These bugs were harassing 
me for quite some months now. I also lost some unsaved work...

I am currently using a 2.6.29 kernel from Koji along with the "pci=msi" 
kernel parameter, and this seems to fix the issue for me, though I am 
just testing for a few days now.

While typing this, I see that there is a 2.6.29 kernel in 
updates-testing. I will give it a try later tonight.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474624
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465884

Regards
-- 
Richard "Shred" Körber