From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 23 16:15:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A03D316A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 16:15:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.siliconlandmark.com (alpha.siliconlandmark.com [209.69.98.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F0BB43D31 for ; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 16:15:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from alpha.siliconlandmark.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) hBO0FWZV050320; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 19:15:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from localhost (andy@localhost)hBO0FVMP050317; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 19:15:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) X-Authentication-Warning: alpha.siliconlandmark.com: andy owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 19:15:31 -0500 (EST) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet To: Christopher Nehren In-Reply-To: <20031223030133.GA8132@prophecy.dyndns.org> Message-ID: <20031223190753.R48511@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> References: <20031223030133.GA8132@prophecy.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange X freezes, system otherwise responsive X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 00:15:38 -0000 On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Christopher Nehren wrote: > 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. > Thanks in advance for any assistance with this. I'd be very pleased > to provide any other information. There's a number of things that you can supply that would help diagnose this problem: - What revision level of the XFree86-Server and XFree86-libraries ports are you running? - uname -a - A verbose boot's dmesg. - Have you recently upgraded your kernel across versions of current and forgotten to rebuild affected ports. See src/UPDATING for details. - When you say the "nVidia drivers" you're using the official nVidia driver and not XFree86's nv(4) driver, correct? Regards, > Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > > Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ >