Updating Xorg on FC2

[Tim Wunder]

On 2/21/2005 10:52 AM, I believe that Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yeah, I'm thinking that, too. There are reasons to update to FC3, 
anyway, if I stay with a fedora-based distro, since support for FC2 will 
be going away before too long. Unfortunately, I just recently got 
everything working on FC2 WRT the different repositories i use (atrpms, 
kde-redhat, dag, and freshrpms) and apt4rpm.

> 
>>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 ?

Nothing jumps out at me, 'cept the occasional reference to "(WW) Open 
APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device)"
There are no date references in the log, though, so it makes it 
difficult to see what's going on when. I'll have to remember to check 
that file the next time X misbehaves.

> ...  Which window manager are you running?

Kwin, as provided by KDE-3.3.2 as compiled by kde-redhat.sf.net

> Perhaps try a different window manager and see if the problem persists?
> 

Perhaps. Problem is, I'd have to use antoher window manager for an 
indeterminate period of time, and I'm really used to KDE...

I guess it could also be the nvidia driver that's installed. Using 
1.0-6629, which is s'posed to be the latest.

Thanks,
Tim