Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 04 July 2011 19:12:50 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella did opine
thusly:
2011/7/4 Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com>:
Hi,
What mine does: It sort of varies but usually when I login, it
may last a couple minutes, usually less, then the Caps Lock and
Scroll Lock LED's blink. The Num Lock key is off if that means
anything. I tried the SysReq keys but it doesn't do anything
at all. According to the messages at the next boot, it doesn't
sync or umount either. The mouse pointer no longer moves
either. At this point, I hit the reset button which causes
steam to come out my ears. I HATE using that button.
I'm fairly sure this is not hardware.
You can never be sure about that.
Right now, I am in Fluxbox and it
works fine. I also booted to single user and compiled a bunch
of stuff and also tried a different kernel too. I think if it
was hardware, it would have had some kind of hick-up during the
compile. I did check temps and all is nice and cool, very cool
since my A/C is on full blast. I think the oven is outside on
full blast instead of in the kitchen. lol It's HOT here,
steamy hot.
You can try turning off the compositing system altogether. You can
do that by disabling the desktop effects in systemsettings. If
lockups stop then it's probably something to do with your graphics
driver and if that's the case you might have better luck with an
alternative driver.
I get frequent crashes that seem to be related to nouveau.
When I used nvidia drivers, they seemed to have a mind of their own
when it came to memory usage and segfaults.
And the entire abomination that shall not be suffered to live called
"kdepim" *definitely* has a mind of it's own.
I checked messages and the only thing I saw was about a bad
option for hp-systray. Surely that wouldn't cause a crash?
I'm going to unmerge and test it tho, just to be sure.
I don't think so.
Well, I tried a different kernel. Same thing. I tried reseting the
BIOS and lurking around in there for a bit as well. Same thing. So,
right now I'm chewing on a emerge -e kde-meta. After I remembered the
power failure the other day, I suspect a corrupt file somewhere. I'm
just glad I have Fluxbox on here. I'm in it right now and it works OK.
I just wish the little bar at the bottom was larger. So far, nothing I
click changes that. Tough on my eyes too. Teeny tiny stuff down
there. o_o
Thinking back, I should have booted the CD and run file system checks.
Crap, the one thing I didn't think of. < sighs >
I still use Nvidia's driver here. it has worked well for me at least.
I don't use any fancy hardware or play any serious games so it works
well, so far at least. That may change next week. lol You know me.
Something new pretty regular.
I don't guess I use kdepim stuff. It's installed so who knows. Any
relation to pam?
Dale
:-) :-)
