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Hello, |
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Regarding the issue of an X freeze I only wish to add my two bits which are |
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only relevant to those who have NVIDIA hardware (and driver). |
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I have an NVIDIA graphics card and usually keep up-to-date via emerge. I was |
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at media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.5336-r2 when the freeze(s) occurred. It was not |
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just an X freeze - it was a kernel panic. |
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I experienced these at random intervals but was able to google my way out of |
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it. |
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The current emergeable nvidia version apparently contains defective kernel |
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functions which have been obsoleted (pci_find_subsys for one). Some of these |
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functions are used in interrupt context and will crash. |
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So look at /var/log/messages for anything nvidia-related like: |
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Sep 22 19:48:14 byrd [<c0207ba8>] pci_find_slot+0x28/0x50 |
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Sep 22 19:48:14 byrd [<f0dbefc2>] os_pci_init_handle+0x39/0x68 [nvidia] |
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...... |
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Sep 22 19:48:14 byrd Badness in pci_find_subsys at drivers/pci/search.c:167 |
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Sep 22 19:48:14 byrd [<c0207d68>] pci_find_subsys+0xe8/0xf0 |
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I went to the nvidia website and downloaded the then latest stuff |
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(NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run) and installed it the old way. |
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I have not had the problem after that. |
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Hope it helps. |
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Best regards, |
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Erik |
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