Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 22:01:33 -0500 From: Christopher Nehren <apeiron@comcast.net> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Strange X freezes, system otherwise responsive Message-ID: <20031223030133.GA8132@prophecy.dyndns.org>
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--h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm not quite sure where to submit this query, but I'll start here. Up until recently, I've had a system running X continually for weeks at a time with very few interruptions. I'm using the newest nVidia drivers with an MSI GeForce 4 Ti4200. The problem is that after a period of use (seemingly random), X will just freeze. I can't switch to a virtual terminal, and alt-ctrl-backspace causes a monitor diagnostic that I see when the monitor isn't receiving a signal from the rest of the machine. Occasionally, the text around the cursor will blur, but not entirely -- either the upper or lower baseline. I haven't yet noticed this happen in any window manager other than Enlightenment, but I'm hard-pressed to believe that it's E's fault because I've used the same package -- and configuration -- for months (since I first built it almost a year ago). The curious thing about this freeze is that the rest of the system is still perfectly responsive: I can access the machine via SSH and kill X (which causes strange horizontal lines to appear on the screen, very similar to what I saw with the previous version of the nVidia X driver, but not quite the same -- there's more of them), and then restart X and continue using the system as normal. Another curios aspect of this freeze is that xmms continues to play music until it advances to a new song. If I'm streaming something, it goes on indefinitely. And no,=20 NumLock seems to have nothing to do with it. The freeze occurs both=20 with and without it. I'd upgrade my E, but that seems to break some=20 things like iconifying a window and being able to alt-tab to it on=20 another virtual desktop -- a feature which I use very often.=20 Thanks in advance for any assistance with this. I'd be very pleased=20 to provide any other information. --=20 I abhor a system designed for the "user", if that word is a coded pejorative meaning "stupid and unsophisticated". -- Ken Thompson --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/57ANk/lo7zvzJioRAjZ/AJ9p2sWsEoyb0wJNpR4KbdGekKZ0rgCgniVa T2v8TTQvvhqgtMGYyD8jobk= =L7ZP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF--
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