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I had a similar problem for a while due to a bad video card. It was an nvidia, and I was able to fix it by switching to the nv (open source) driver, but that meant I had no 3d acceleration. I don't know if there's something similar you could try with a Matrox, you may just have to replace the card. |
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----- Original Message ---- |
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From: Michael George <george@××××××××××.com> |
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To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o; gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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Sent: Friday, April 6, 2007 1:46:04 PM |
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Subject: [gentoo-amd64] X locks up |
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I have been having trouble with my system. For some reason, I've only |
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noticed it recently, but nothing has been updated on the system. |
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What happens is that sometimes (amazingly frequently) when I have open |
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office running on my right screen and I click "File", the displays will |
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freeze. The system is still running, because I can get in from one of |
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my terminals. I check and X is consuming 100% of one processor. |
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I can kill openoffice and ctwm (my window manager) reasily, but I have |
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to use -9 option to kill to get X to die. Even after that, though, the |
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video and keyboard are still locked. The only way I know of to get them |
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back is to restart the system. |
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IIRC, it only happens when OOo is on the right screen, but I can start |
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oowriter2, put it on the right screen, and click file and it won't |
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always lock things up. |
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System info: |
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openoffice-bin-2.1.0 |
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xorg-x11-7.1 |
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xorg-server-1.1.1-r4 (VIDEO_CARDS="mga", INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse") |
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libXinerama-1.0.1 |
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ctwm-3.7 |
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Video card: Matrox G450 |
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System starts up to a CLI login, not XDM |
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Anyone have any clue as to what is going on here? Is there a way I can |
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release the hold on my keyboard and/or display so that I can just get to |
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the console so that I can reissue "startx"? |
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There are 10 kinds of people in this world: |
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Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. |
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