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My system also freezes completely, and at unpredictble intervals, |
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although only when using KDE or gnome. So, my thinking was that I had |
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a bad power supply, or bad memory somwhere, but then discovered that I |
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can run fluxbox/wmaker without any problems, although the KDE apps crash |
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if I run them within fluxbox/wmaker. |
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I ran emerge sync && emerge -pue kde, then re-installed the whole mess |
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as if from an empty tree, and I get the same results. |
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Some details: |
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AT1 Radeon 8500, dual AMD MP CPUs, xorg 6.8, 2.6.7 kernel, using radeon |
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driver with 3D acceleration. 1GB RAM and using NPTL. |
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Sound familiar to anyone? |
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Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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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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