Re: Gnome locks frequently

[Ryan Marsh <me ryanmarsh com>]

I've got the ALi chipset on my board but I do have the SB Live! and a
GeForce 2 GTS. It's too bad that you can take a rock solid system and
make it flakier than windows just because the Linux drivers are behind
the curve.

Another thing I noticed is Sawfish might be part of the problem. Alot of
the weird crashes and hangs I have sometimes seem closely related to the
window manager. Like for instance a popup menu, a tool tip, and a modal
dialog all popup in succession and focus gets lost somewhere in between
and I can't get focus back to anything. Sometimes weird things like this
seem to preced lockups. Only, when it's sawfish I can just
Alt+Ctrl+Backspace. Still a pain but not as bad as a hard reboot. Thank
God for ext3.

-ryan

On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 18:59, Chris Maynard wrote:
> Are you using a VIA motherboard? I'm running an Abit KT7A, with a
> GForce2 MX. AGP 2x mode runs fine, but 4x will lock up quite frequently.
> (This is a Windows problem, too. At least it was when I had a Windows
> partition...)
> 
> If you are using the NVidia drivers, try typing:
> 
> # cat /proc/nv/card0
> 
> at the command line, and look at the value listed in brackets beside
> "Rates:". You want to see 2x for stability. If it says 4x, consult the
> NVidia FAQs.
> 
> I've also had problems with the SB Live! card. This was (somewhat) fixed
> by getting the CVS Live! drivers. Again, this locked up as you
> described, no keyboard, no mouse, etc. 
> 
> One thing to note, though. AFAIK, there should be no way that Gnome
> could cause this kind of problem. It could, however, stress your video
> card/X into crashing, but it would still be a more fundamental problem.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 05:52, Ryan Marsh wrote:
> > I thought it might be the AGP module in the NVidia driver. Does Gnome
> > ever use the AGP driver for anything? 
> > 
> > It might also be that I need the newer driver. I'm using 1541.
> > 
> > -ryan
> > 
> > On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 03:14, Markus Bertheau wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 09:47, Ryan Marsh wrote:
> > > > Uh Oh. Houston we have a problem. I've been having the exact same thing
> > > > happen to me. I have RH 7.2 and an NVidia card. The kernel that shipped
> > > > with Red Hat and every one I've compiled after it seem to be VERY
> > > > unstable. Maybe it's the NVidia driver but I didn't have these problems
> > > > until I moved to RH 7.2 and I've always used the NVidia driver and not
> > > > the X one. 
> > > > 
> > > > Ever since I moved on to kernels 2.4.9 and above my system has been
> > > > flakier than the crappiest of Win 95 boxen. I don't know what to do. But
> > > > it is really embarassing when Linux locks up in front of my friends.
> > > > 
> > > > "I thought you said it was stable"
> > > > 
> > > > -ryan
> > > My box is stable
> > > RH 7.2, NVidia Driver 2313, stock kernel. Older NVIDIA drivers and RH
> > > 7.1 used to crash when stressing tv and videotext. These problems are
> > > gone.
> > > 
> > > Markus Bertheau
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
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