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Hm. I've emerged openoffice already, and also given it long lists of |
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other packages to merge, both while X doesn't run. It doesn't seem to be |
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related to the machine load in the that sense. |
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Also on this note, I'm dual booting the system - Windows seems to |
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have no trouble with it at all, and every hardware check I've run comes out |
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fine. If it's a hardware problem, it's a real subtle one. |
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Thank you, in any case. |
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Gabe. |
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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: Lindsay Haisley [mailto:fmouse-gentoo@×××.com] |
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> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 3:05 PM |
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> To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] X freezing? |
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> |
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> In my experience, system freezes are hardware-related, |
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> sometimes failed |
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> memory, or something else that throws the system completely |
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> off-track. One |
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> of the more common and less obvious culprits is a seriously |
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> unclean power |
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> from a failing power supply. It's difficult to troubleshoot |
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> this kind of |
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> thing that happens unpredictably, but it might be instructive |
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> to kill X and |
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> do a bit of stress testing from the cmd line, such as: |
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> # while [ 1 ]; do emerge openoffice; done |
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> [or some other large package that's heavy on i/o] |
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> |
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> Let this run for a few hours, days or whatever is the nominal |
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> time between |
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> lockups and see if the problem recurs, which will eliminate X |
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> if it does |
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> (but unfortunately not necessarily implicate X if it doesn't). |
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> |
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> I'm sure there are others who can suggest better stress-tests. |
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> |
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> Thus spake A. Gabriel W. Daleson on Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at |
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> 04:02:55PM CDT |
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> > I'm not sure if this is something serious or merely me being |
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> > incompetent at configuring X, but whenever I've run X on |
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> this Dell Inspiron |
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> > XPS with a Radeon 9800 Mobility, the entire system locks |
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> up. It doesn't seem |
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> > to follow any pattern - sometimes it's within the first |
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> five minutes, other |
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> > times nearly an hour. |
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> > |
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> > The first time this happened, it destroyed the LCD, so |
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> I suspected |
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> > refresh rates were set wrong; changing the HorizSync to 75 |
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> and VertRefresh |
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> > to 60 hasn't helped. |
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> > |
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> > I've tried this with both the radeon driver included with X and |
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> > ATI's proprietary driver, as well as both gentoo-sources and |
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> > development-sources and X.org 6.7.0 and 6.8.0. |
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> > |
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> > I've had two lockups since then, but the display's |
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> still working. |
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> > |
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> > Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks for any help. |
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> > |
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> > Gabe. |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > -- |
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> > |
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> Lindsay Haisley | "Fighting against human | PGP public key |
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> FMP Computer Services | creativity is like | available at |
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> 512-259-1190 | trying to eradicate | |
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> <http://pubkeys.fmp.com> |
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> http://www.fmp.com | dandelions" | |
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> | (Pamela Jones) | |
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