On Fri, 26 May 2017 09:36:04 -0400, Andrew Warshall <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi- > > I have a radeon HD3000 graphics chipset. It works fine unless I try > to do something graphics-intensive (video game, say) in which case > after ~half an hour the Xserver hangs with many messages written to > the system console about how it "couldn't schedule IB". If I can get > to VT1 (which I can't always), C-c successfully kills X, but startx > then just gives more error messages immediately, even without > anything graphics-intensive. Starting X the second time in a > different VT doesn't help. Googling reveals that this was a known > problem in the kernel in roughly 2012; but, while my system is old, > it's not that old (kernel version is 3.10, which came out roughly a > year after the supposed fix to the known problem was merged). Any > thoughts? I'm reluctant to move all the way to current kernel --- > might break something more important than video games --- but I > could update (preferably by only a few kernel versions) if there was > real reason to believe that would help. > > -Andrew Warshall
I don't see how it is related to LFS or BLFS, but it's most likely an issue with the kernel. I'd update, because you can have more than one kernel version installed at a time. Kuba -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
