Created attachment 330693 [details] xorg.conf Description of problem: If I boot my Fedora 10 system without 'nomodeset' and start X, after a while the X server become achingly slow to update/repaint windows. Once this has started, the situation will persist until I reboot the machine; shutting down X and restarting will not fix anything. (I have left the machine sitting at the text console overnight without anything changing.) This has primarily happened under kernel-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64, but I have seen it happen once with kernel-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.x86_64. I believe but cannot confirm that running graphics intensive programs (such as photo processing software) makes the problem happen sooner. The problem does not seem to happen if I boot the system with 'nomodeset'. The machine did not have this problem when it was running Fedora 8; everything worked fine (apart from the X server itself growing in memory usage due to my long-running Firefox, which encouraged an X server restart about once a week or so). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-63.fc10.x86_64 kernel-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64 My card is: VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE] My machine: Asus M2N4-SLI motherboard, Athlon X2 4600+ CPU, 6 GB of RAM. My xorg.conf is somewhat customized, because it is an inherited, customized version from Fedora 8 and before that Fedora 6. I will attach it for your perusal. (I cannot easily run without a custom xorg.conf, because the default ATI Radeon driver does not create a virtual screen large enough to accommodate two 1280x1024 panels side by side.)
Thanks for the bug report. We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue. Please attach your X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log), /var/log/messages, and /var/log/dmesg to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 330924 [details] Xorg.0.log This Xorg.0.log is from a session before the problem has manifested. I'd hoped to be able to give you one from a post-problem session, but that was interrupted by other things and rather than wait, I'll put this up now. If/when the problem reappears I'll check for additional things in the X log.
Created attachment 330925 [details] /var/log/dmesg
Created attachment 330926 [details] /var/log/messages This is my /var/log/messages from the most recent system boot onwards. I have removed syslog messages from my (locally-written) SMTP server front-end on the grounds that they're both verbose and irrelevant.
This message is a reminder that Fedora 10 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 10. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '10'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 10's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 10 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Fedora 10 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-12-17. Fedora 10 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.