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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Hi Guys,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ve been trying to get FC12 x86_64 working on a system with an Intel GM45 graph</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ics chipset.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">What I am seeing is about 7 times out of 8 once Linux switches to graphics mode, the system locks up.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">It seems to lock up (caps lock and al</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">l other keyboard presses not accepted) at various / random points</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">In</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> graphical mode startup. I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ve seen it lock up when X is started, when the login panel comes up, or even after</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Logging in before the gnome desktop is displayed.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Booting into run level 3 is not an issue. In fact, issuing a startx command from a run level 3 console seems to lock</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The system up as well.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ve installed all available rpm updates and that did not seem to help.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">It looks like a problem in the graphics pipeline/stack.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Has anyone else seen this problem?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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