Re: Linux freeze problem

From: John Lester (user_at_example.net)
Date: 12/09/03 

Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 23:22:45 +0000

J.O. Aho wrote:

> JWL wrote:
>
>> The problem is that SuSE 9 and RH9 freeze solid every time I boot into
>> them. This typically happens less than 15 minutes after X has loaded (it
>> doesn't freeze if X isn't loaded). The only way to recover from the
>> freeze is to shut down and restart. I've had the hardware checked and
>> it's fine. Sometimes the freeze problem mysteriously disappears and it's
>> fine unti I cold boot, after which the problem starts again. I've patched
>> the kernal and tried the latest nvidia drivers but nothing seems to make
>> any difference.
>
> There are some instabilities with the nvidia driver and some hardware,
> those are listed in the pdf that is provided by nVidia. You may need to
> test with different AGP settings in the config file, some have problems
> when using the nVidias AGP support while others have problems when using
> the kernel AGP support, and a few have problems with both and then need to
> turn it off.
>
> Turning down the AGP speed in the BIOS can help in some cases, the same
> with turning off the "Plug and Play OS" setting in the BIOS.
>
> Sometimes a 'killall -9 X' can solve problems for the current boot.
> A good thing to do, is to make a bug report to nVidia (e-mail address can
> be found on the nVidia linux pages), otherwise the bug (if it's that) will
> never be fixed and please, do give as much information about your system
> as possible, better to give more than less.
>
>
>> BTW, here's a snippet of /var/logs/messages containing everything between
>> booting and crashing: http://www.e4me.fsworld.co.uk/messages
>
> quite unintresting to know about your usb, XFree86.0.log is a lot more
> usefull in this case. To see the XF86Config could be usefull too.

Sorry, bit of a newbie. See

http://www.e4me.fsworld.co.uk/XFree86.0.log
http://www.e4me.fsworld.co.uk/XF86Config

John

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