Updating Xorg on FC2

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Tim Wunder wrote:
> Has anyone updated Xorg on FC2 and lived to tell about it?
> I'm currently running FC2 with
> $ rpm -q xorg-x11
> xorg-x11-6.7.0-11
> and am experiencing occasional X lock-ups (well, technically, X is just
> using 99% of the CPU, so it's not "locked up," it's just running really,
> really slow).
> Nothing in the .xsession-errors or /var/logs/messages files indicates
> (to me) what the problem might be, but I'm thinking that an update of X
> may magically "fix" things.

I did it once with the RPMs from FC3.  It was a bit of a hack job since
some of the packages changed names along the way, but it was functional.
I'd say you'd be better off just uprading to FC3 though.

>
> Any other thoughts on more useful ways of troubleshooting why X
> occasionally will use so much CPU would also be helpful.

Anything in the Xorg.0.log ?  Which window manager are you running?
Perhaps try a different window manager and see if the problem persists?

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