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The X freezes are still continuing, despite my having tried all |
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workable combinations of the ati, radeon, and fglrx drivers, both X.org |
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6.7.0 and 6.8.0, tweaking the BIOS, and seeing what a kernel created with |
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genkernel does. |
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I did, however, pore over the logs - which I expected wouldn't have |
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anything given the nature of the crash - and found two interesting bits. |
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The following lines seems to reliably occur in /var/log/messages |
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before each of the crashes: |
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iid OAFIID:BrokenNoType:20000808 has a NULL type |
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invalid character '#' in iid |
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'OAFIID:This#!!%$iid%^$%_|~!OAFIID_ContainsBadChars |
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This may not be the cause - while it occurs a few minutes before |
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each crash, I have one instance of it occuring with no crash, and there's |
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usually a delay, sometimes of several minutes, between the timestamp on |
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these lines and the timestamp of the next boot. |
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I have, though, not seen any examples of a crash occuring without |
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this warning. Furthermore, I've found at least one forum post of a gentleman |
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with a similar problem, at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=176074. |
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Item 2: Another log, /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old, has the following: |
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(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory) |
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I don't have APM enabled in the kernel, nor does xorg-x11 of either |
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version seem to involve the apm USE flag. |
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This gives two questions: what's that "invalid character" occuring |
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in, and how can I turn off the APM system in xorg-x11? |
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Thanks for all the help. |
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Gabe. |
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