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The first sign of this was that on startup gnome started up in safe mode and I can't access system settings from the gui menu.

$ uname -a
Linux mymachine 3.7.2-204.fc18.i686.PAE #1 SMP Wed Jan 16 16:31:26 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

dmesg

[   54.190910] SELinux: initialized (dev fuse, type fuse), uses genfs_contexts
[   54.280239] SELinux: initialized (dev fusectl, type fusectl), uses genfs_contexts
[  973.080049] [drm:i915_hangcheck_hung] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung
[  973.085561] i915: render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010
[  973.085572] [drm:i915_report_and_clear_eir] *ERROR* EIR stuck: 0x00000010, masking
[  973.085587] i915: render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010
[ 1027.080050] [drm:i915_hangcheck_hung] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung
[ 1027.084135] i915: render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010
[ 1027.084149] [drm:i915_report_and_clear_eir] *ERROR* EIR stuck: 0x00000010, masking
[ 1027.084162] i915: render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010
[ 1030.084053] [drm:i915_hangcheck_hung] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung
[ 1030.084241] [drm:i915_reset] *ERROR* GPU hanging too fast, declaring wedged!
[ 1030.084246] [drm:i915_reset] *ERROR* Failed to reset chip.
[ 3049.196863] nf_conntrack: automatic helper assignment is deprecated and it will be removed soon. Use the iptables CT target to attach helpers instead.

from /var/log/Xorg.0.log

[    28.112] (II) intel: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810,
i810-dc100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 854, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G,
E7221 (i915), 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 945GME, Pineview GM, Pineview G,
965G, G35, 965Q, 946GZ, 965GM, 965GME/GLE, G33, Q35, Q33, GM45,
4 Series, G45/G43, Q45/Q43, G41, B43, B43, Clarkdale, Arrandale,
Sandybridge Desktop (GT1), Sandybridge Desktop (GT2),
Sandybridge Desktop (GT2+), Sandybridge Mobile (GT1),
Sandybridge Mobile (GT2), Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+),
Sandybridge Server, Ivybridge Mobile (GT1), Ivybridge Mobile (GT2),
Ivybridge Desktop (GT1), Ivybridge Desktop (GT2), Ivybridge Server,
Ivybridge Server (GT2), Haswell Desktop (GT1), Haswell Desktop (GT2),
Haswell Desktop (GT2+), Haswell Mobile (GT1), Haswell Mobile (GT2),
Haswell Mobile (GT2+), Haswell Server (GT1), Haswell Server (GT2),
Haswell Server (GT2+), Haswell SDV Desktop (GT1),
Haswell SDV Desktop (GT2), Haswell SDV Desktop (GT2+),
Haswell SDV Mobile (GT1), Haswell SDV Mobile (GT2),
Haswell SDV Mobile (GT2+), Haswell SDV Server (GT1),
Haswell SDV Server (GT2), Haswell SDV Server (GT2+),
Haswell ULT Desktop (GT1), Haswell ULT Desktop (GT2),
Haswell ULT Desktop (GT2+), Haswell ULT Mobile (GT1),
Haswell ULT Mobile (GT2), Haswell ULT Mobile (GT2+),
Haswell ULT Server (GT1), Haswell ULT Server (GT2),
Haswell ULT Server (GT2+), Haswell CRW Desktop (GT1),
Haswell CRW Desktop (GT2), Haswell CRW Desktop (GT2+),
Haswell CRW Mobile (GT1), Haswell CRW Mobile (GT2),
Haswell CRW Mobile (GT2+), Haswell CRW Server (GT1),
Haswell CRW Server (GT2), Haswell CRW Server (GT2+),
ValleyView PO board
[    28.122] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa

I assume the intel driver above is the right one for this graphics card? How do I stop the built-in graphics card from hanging?

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Something is very very wrong with newer X11 and 82845G video hardware. I've actually downgraded to Slackware 11.0 on one machine to get reliable 82845G graphics.

My development machine runs Arch. The Arch forums have a 7-page multi-year thread about 82845G. If you look at about page 5 of the Arch forum thread, you can see that some people claim a fix. Arch provides 2 separate packages to deal with this issue. I haven't ever even installed Fedora, so I'm not sure what to recommend you try. I may try to install one of Arch's new packages, now that I'm aware of it.

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I restarted and dmesg didn't show the hung GPU errors this time. Did it work this time or would it just not try to use/activate the integrated card? – user1561108 Jan 21 at 22:39
(I did a yum -y update in between but that didn't update anything notable) – user1561108 Jan 22 at 0:35

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