(Note: This was reported to RH bugzilla. I was asked to report it here also. The xorg version provided by Red Hat is 6.8.2 based but I am not sure exactly what has been patched.) If I install any version (tried previous versions of xorg-x11 from the development version) of xorg-x11 from FC-devel then I experience random freezes/crashes on my MacMini. Since I am in X I do not know what happened. There is nothing in the logs after the freeze has happened. I am not entirely sure which version the Fedora Core-devel version matches in the plain xorg-x11. It seems slightly related to the sound system but not entirely sure. I use XFCE 4 (development version) and XFmedia. I can use the new development version of as long as I do not try to listen to music, or sometimes even start the xfmedia application. Either I can listen to music for a while (in X) and then a freeze occurs or the freeze happens as soon as I open the xfmedia application. I do not use the stock Red Hat kernel since this does not include power management to control the fan (atleast it did not in earlier versions making the fan run at full speed all times). I have experience these issues with kernels 2.6.12.5, 2.6.13.1 and 2.6.14. Also if I enable DRI in the xorg-x11 config file I can not use X at all. The graphics do not seem so sync with the monitor correctly (the graphics is severely corrupted - it looks like one single pixel line is compressed into only a few pixels). As included in the xorg-x11 config file below I also had to enable UseFBDev to get any useful graphical output (atleast with the standard FC4 xorg-x11 releases). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-6.8.2-58.ppc How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start X 2. Start xfmedia 3. Use computer in X and after a non-deterministic time a freeze will happen. Actual Results: The following operation causes freezes at random times. Expected Results: No freeze. Additional info: Every version I tried in the development version of X11 causes freezes.
Created attachment 3759 [details] The configuration file used
Created attachment 3760 [details] lspci -v list of the MacMini
Created attachment 3761 [details] Linux CPU info for the MacMini
I do not have the Xorg log file for the problematic installation I notice. If needed I can try to recreate it. Also, this is the RH bugzilla id is: 172537 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172537
Also it should be noted: The FC version xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2 works fine, xorg-x11-6.8.2-58 (for example) does not.
(In reply to comment #5) > > The FC version xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2 works fine, xorg-x11-6.8.2-58 (for > example) does not. Please try to track down which change between these two versions causes the problem then.
The following has changed between the working and the non-working version: 1. The most likely candidate: Modifications on how "Dynamic Clocks" are handeled has been modified. My current configuration runs with default setting for "DynamicClocks". According to the log file this defaults to off: (II) RADEON(0): Dynamic Clock Scaling Disabled Atleast if it is disabled then I get no freeze. I will try to install the newer version again and disable dynamic clocks and see if I get the freeze. The exact modifications performed between the two version is attached to this report. 2. A patch to workaround volatile problems in gcc has been dropped since it should be fixed in gcc-4.0.1-4 (RH build) which should have been used to compile the package. 3. A modification enabling DRI for Radeon RV100 has been modified. This radeon is an RV280. 4. The patch for CAN-2005-2495 (allocating too large pixmaps) is not included in the version that freezes 5. Support i945 is not included in the version that freezes (should not be related since that is an Intel chip and this is not an Intel platform). 6. A leak in the shadow framebuffer is fixed in the non-freezing version. 7. A patch to remove ProPolice stuff is removed in the freezing version.
Created attachment 3769 [details] The patch that is applied to the freezing version. This is the patch that is applied to the freezing version.
Created attachment 3770 [details] Patch applied to the working version This is the patch applied to the working version.
Are you still experiencing this problem with feodora core 5?
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No, I have not upgraded to Fedora Core 5 so I can not give input if this has fixed the problem or not. Before FC5 was released I tried installing some of the Rawhide versions to see if it fixed the problem but all those version refused to set the screens native resolution (which is 1680x1050).
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