F10 hangs!

[rinjo]

Hi All,

I just installed F10 on my laptop. Earlier I was using F8.
All of a sudden my system has started hanging.
Its not that it hangs when its running a particular application.

I never had this issue when I was using F8.

Is this some know issue with F10??

Any solution for the same??

Thanks in advance...

[devils casper]

Hi Rinjo !

Post your Machine's specs here. Which Graphics Card do you have?

[rinjo]

Hi Devil,

My system specs are as follows:
HP DV2122TU Laptop
Intel Core 2 Duo processor (1.6Ghz)
2GB RAM
120GB hard disk (linux partition having 30GB and windows on the rest)
2GB swap partition
Running Fedora 10 (2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686)
No separate graphics card. But contains a "Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950"

I hope this info helps

[devils casper]

Execute this

sudo lspci | grep -i vga
grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Post output here.

[svinoba]

Also, check the size/s of /var/log/messages* file/s. One of the users had this freezing problem and found issue was due to /var/log/messages* file/s being too big. Its possible that it is the same in your case.

[rinjo]

Execute this

sudo lspci | grep -i vga
grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Post output here.

Hi Devil,
Output is as follows:

[root@localhost rinjo]# lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
[root@localhost rinjo]# grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
grep: /etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory

There is no such file as xorg.conf in /etc/X11/

The contents of X11 is as follows

[root@localhost rinjo]# ls -l /etc/X11/
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-09-06 15:43 applnk
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-01-15 02:12 fontpath.d
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1061 2008-11-11 22:29 prefdm
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-01-15 02:14 xdm
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2010-01-15 02:14 xinit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  547 2008-08-25 19:43 Xmodmap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  493 2008-08-25 19:43 Xresources
[root@localhost rinjo]# 
[root@localhost rinjo]# find /etc/X11/ -name xorg.conf -print
[root@localhost rinjo]#

Please let me know, which details you require.

[devils casper]

Create xorg.conf file manully and try using i810 driver.

su -c nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
	Driver		"i810"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Generic Monitor"
	Option		"DPMS"
	HorizSync	30-71
	VertRefresh	50-160
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
	Monitor		"Generic Monitor"
	DefaultDepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		24
		Modes		"1280x1024" "1024x768" 
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Default Layout"
	Screen		"Default Screen"
	InputDevice	"Generic Keyboard"
	InputDevice	"Generic Mouse"
EndSection

In case it doesn't work, boot up in Single User Mode and remove xorg.conf file.

[rinjo]

Hi Devil,

Tried the method you mentioned, and created the xorg.conf file. But, unfortunately it did not work.
All I got was a black screen with a big rectangular mouse cursor.

I have deleted the xorg.conf file as specified.

Any other solution to this issue???

[devils casper]

Intel Graphics Card Driver didn't work in most distro that released during release of Fedora 10. Problem is in Driver only and different solutions worked on different instances.
Add nomodeset keyword at the end of Kernel line in grub.conf file and check if it works.