Fedora 10 Randomly Crashes

[Driv3r912]

Hi everyone,

I've been with the Fedora OS for a while now and downloaded the new Fedora 10 DVD yesterday. I checked the SHA1 (Checksum) and they came back matching. I did a media check before installing Fedora.

I successfully install Fedora 10 on my system. After running it for about 6 or so minutes, it completely crashes. They keyboard and everything lockup. I have to do a hard reboot to recover. It will do the same thing over and over again.

I've performed now the 6th Clean Install. I still have the issue.


I'm running:
Gateway ML3109
1GB RAM
ATI Radeon Xpress 200M
Phoenix BIOS Revision ____ (not sure off hand)
85GB of HDD Space



What's weird is, I notice before it crashes that YUM is looking for a package titled along the lines of /lib/firmware/... intel ____code ??


Also, when I had Fedora 9, I had every update installed and never had any issues.






Moreover, when I enable desktop effects on Fedora 10, scrolling and resizing windows is terrible. It's not smooth, but moves over several pixels at a time.


Any ideas would greatly be appreciated. I'm more concerned over the crashing in the meantime. If you have ideas about the Desktop Effects, please post as well. Thanks!

[ankbhdk]

Hi,

I see the same, with random hard freezes after 1-10 minutes.
My machine is a HP pavilion ze2347EA laptop, with a AMD turion ML-30 CPU, 1.128GB RAM and a broadcom BCM4318 wireless card.
I have never seen any issues under Fedora 9.

Any help appreciated!
Allan

[ankbhdk]

Forgot.

My machine has a ATI Radeon Xpress 200M graphics card as well....

/Allan

[Swannjohn]

I don't intend to be the bearer of bad news.
I've had this problem from the beginning with the beta of F10 and the preview of F10.
It does not like ATI video cards. F10 on my machine always freezes up when any application tries to use the Open GL drivers or the fglrx programs.

ie: KDE does not work at all
No GL screen savers
No Desktop effects
No compizfusion

Though you can install all of these programs any attempt to use them will totally freeze the system.
I'm sure I've read a few threads about this issue. They were all statements of people having the same issues but no resolution to the problem. If not mistaken your video drivers are now a part of the new Kernal and the x.conf file is not used which is why everyone seems shocked that they can not find it..

My experience is that trying to use older driver (following Liegh123's post of how to use your older drivers and copizfussion will render the computer unusable. You will have to do a full reinstall.

You can do the fglrx test and see that the response states that it does work; however, though it starts up it will totally freeze my computer. I have to do a hard reboot every time.

Good luck.
Keep reading the posts as I do and someone much more able than I will figure how to resolve the problems with the use of ATI and OpenGL and fglrx.

[LBCoder]

Perhaps you should do some reading also? The solution to running fglrx on F10 has been found and posted. You need to downgrade libdrm to the version from F9.

[rafita]

My laptop (dell 1501) has frozen 4 times now just browsing the net. Any step by step solution for this? I have an ATI card too.

[Swannjohn]

Thanks for the response I'll give it a shot.

[Driv3r912]

I also notice it likes to crash when I start to browse the web, or even download something from Terminal using YUM.

[newiLuvatar]

try checking the file /var/log/messages for any hints...

[Driv3r912]

Attached is a text file of my messages log.

[joe.pelayo]

Hi guys.

This might explain why I experience trouble with my ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 (some sort of refurbished 200M) in Fedora. Granted, I've only played with the Beta, and only occurred once, but again it was completely surprising and disappointing.

Did you have the problem while using FGLRX? (I noticed in the beta that I no longer needed FGLRX for direct rendering to work).

As a side note I'll comment that I've experienced problems (X hangs) in Linux Mint 5 x86_64 with FGLRX (presumably latest). I am not sure what to blame: the kernel or the ATI driver.

Thanks.
Joe.

[Driv3r912]

http://www.freewebs.com/driv3r912/MESSAGES%20COPY.txt


The above link will take you to the message log.

[newiLuvatar]

sry, i didn't find anything that just caught my eye...

[joe.pelayo]

Originally Posted by newiLuvatar

sry, i didn't find anything that just caught my eye...

I did, and it was the fact that Network Manager was the last thing reported.

How many of you have wireless cards in your machines? A while back, in F9, I noticed problems just after the wireless network was connected.

Thanks.
Joe.

[Driv3r912]

That's how I connect to my network - wirelessly. So there's 1.