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In my experience, system freezes are hardware-related, sometimes failed |
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memory, or something else that throws the system completely off-track. One |
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of the more common and less obvious culprits is a seriously unclean power |
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from a failing power supply. It's difficult to troubleshoot this kind of |
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thing that happens unpredictably, but it might be instructive 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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Let this run for a few hours, days or whatever is the nominal time between |
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lockups and see if the problem recurs, which will eliminate X if it does |
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(but unfortunately not necessarily implicate X if it doesn't). |
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I'm sure there are others who can suggest better stress-tests. |
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Thus spake A. Gabriel W. Daleson on Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 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 this Dell Inspiron |
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> XPS with a Radeon 9800 Mobility, the entire system locks up. It doesn't seem |
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> to follow any pattern - sometimes it's within the first five minutes, other |
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> times nearly an hour. |
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> The first time this happened, it destroyed the LCD, so I suspected |
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> refresh rates were set wrong; changing the HorizSync to 75 and VertRefresh |
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> to 60 hasn't helped. |
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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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> I've had two lockups since then, but the display's still working. |
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> Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks for any help. |
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> Gabe. |
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