I wanted to ensure that the newer version of xorg-x11 would work on the laptop using the radeon driver. Problems were reduced with the newer version. With the previous version, launching tuxracer (as a test) would end up crashing the server. The game comes up and no longer corrupts the display. Being a laptop computer, I never ran it constantly to really test X. It crashed randomly once when X was left running to share files overnight.
This is running on an FC2 system that xorg and only it's deps.
Jim
Jim Cornette wrote:
I wanted to ensure that the newer version of xorg-x11 would work on the laptop using the radeon driver. Problems were reduced with the newer version. With the previous version, launching tuxracer (as a test) would end up crashing the server. The game comes up and no longer corrupts the display. Being a laptop computer, I never ran it constantly to really test X. It crashed randomly once when X was left running to share files overnight.
This is running on an FC2 system that xorg and only it's deps.
Thanks for the feedback Jim. The radeon driver had a few bugs in it which took a while for people to track down, but it got fixed this week in CVS and should be much more stable now. The X.Org 2nd release candidate (6.7.99.902) is shaping up nicely now, and there should be an RC3 release in the next day or so too.
If anyone testing the new xorg out finds any new problems, please feel free to discuss them here, and also, please file a new bug report about the issue(s) in X.Org bugzilla at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component. Feel free to add me to the CC list (as mharris@www.linux.org.uk) of any X.Org bugs you file upstream, and it helps me to keep a closer eye on the issues also.
Thanks again for testing!
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Mike A. Harris