Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-06-01 Thread Matthias Guentert
Hello everybody It happened again, and yes this time I was using nouveau. # lshw -c video *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: G84 [Quadro FX 1700] vendor: nVidia Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@:01:00.0 version: a1

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-06-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 16:02:36 +0200, Matthias wrote in message cabo4i4zuz_0oeh6oeoz0reo3l2qt6wmwdwzlmdjuts24mjh...@mail.gmail.com: Hello everybody It happened again, and yes this time I was using nouveau. # lshw -c video *-display description: VGA compatible controller

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-21 Thread Matthias Guentert
2012/5/20 Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de: Am Sonntag, 20. Mai 2012 schrieb Matthias Guentert: I am really running out of ideas here... and becoming unsure if the nvidia driver really is the culprit. I will switch back to the nv driver and test for another month or so... big chill!

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 21 May 2012 10:18:22 +0200, Matthias wrote in message cabo4i4wbsdbt8vgl+b++ubypfba23yrkgljjerhhi1fc43l...@mail.gmail.com: 2012/5/20 Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de: Am Sonntag, 20. Mai 2012 schrieb Matthias Guentert: I am really running out of ideas here... and becoming

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-21 Thread Matthias Güntert
Am 21.05.2012 um 12:59 schrieb Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net: On Mon, 21 May 2012 10:18:22 +0200, Matthias wrote in message cabo4i4wbsdbt8vgl+b++ubypfba23yrkgljjerhhi1fc43l...@mail.gmail.com: 2012/5/20 Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de: Am Sonntag, 20. Mai 2012 schrieb Matthias Guentert:

..trolls?, was: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 21 May 2012 06:27:42 -0500, Christofer wrote in message caoevnytq6netamd9bqhkgmoxh0ghlq4zal8xqie1fcbjs-x...@mail.gmail.com: On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2012 10:18:22 +0200, Matthias wrote in message

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 21 May 2012 13:30:37 +0200, Matthias wrote in message cf8c0e23-d1ec-4131-8f63-b8a0b6791...@gmail.com: Am 21.05.2012 um 12:59 schrieb Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net: ..so, will you try nouveau now, or, do we call you troll when you come whining for help next month? No if or but

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-20 Thread Matthias Guentert
2012/5/15 Matthias Guentert matthias.guent...@gmail.com: 2012/5/4 Curt cu...@free.fr: Upgrade to the newest stable driver (I guess you'll have to use the nvidia installer, after purging the debian package) and newest stable kernel, try the remedies/workarounds suggested here, if any apply:

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 4. Mai 2012 schrieb Curt: On 2012-05-04, Matthias Guentert matthias.guent...@gmail.com wrote: Any real alternatives (in terms of performance, support, opensource drivers) to nvidia? I don't know. ATI's worse, IMHO. There's the new 'nouveau' nvidia driver (bilingual

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 20. Mai 2012 schrieb Matthias Guentert: I have set up remote logging just in case something get's lost on local system. I am really running out of ideas here... and becoming unsure if the nvidia driver really is the culprit. I will switch back to the nv driver and test for

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-15 Thread Matthias Guentert
2012/5/4 Curt cu...@free.fr: Upgrade to the newest stable driver (I guess you'll have to use the nvidia installer, after purging the debian package) and newest stable kernel, try the remedies/workarounds suggested here, if any apply: Okay, I'll give the latest version a try. Let's see how

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 04 mai 12, 14:39:34, Curt wrote: Are you ccing (? how do you write that ?) to my mailing address on purpose, or is it gmail, or both? Must be gmail; it seems to me other people have mentioned this oddity in the past. Gmail doesn't have reply-list so it needs additional work from

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-04 Thread Matthias Guentert
2012/5/1 Matthias Guentert matthias.guent...@gmail.com: Thanks for your reply - very appreciated. Currently I am running Windows Vista on a third harddisk to see if a hardware fault can be excluded being the culprit. So far I did not had one freeze since weeks running Vista. This points back

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 4 May 2012 12:56:01 +0200, Matthias wrote in message CABo4i4y5-=KRW57TdmjVgJVb=t=sf-65gyqsevk6s9yecfs...@mail.gmail.com: 2012/5/1 Matthias Guentert matthias.guent...@gmail.com: Thanks for your reply - very appreciated. Currently I am running Windows Vista on a third harddisk to see

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-04 Thread Curt
On 2012-05-04, Matthias Guentert matthias.guent...@gmail.com wrote: Okay what's next? How can I provide more information / enable debugging for this module? Upgrade to the newest stable driver (I guess you'll have to use the nvidia installer, after purging the debian package) and newest

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-04 Thread Matthias Guentert
2012/5/4 Curt cu...@free.fr: Upgrade to the newest stable driver (I guess you'll have to use the nvidia installer, after purging the debian package) and newest stable kernel, try the remedies/workarounds suggested here, if any apply: Okay, I'll give the latest version a try. Let's see how

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 4 May 2012 16:09:57 +0200, Matthias wrote in message cabo4i4ygehv6s-o09jglhfsrhxn0aeqfzt9sak+p5scx8pa...@mail.gmail.com: 2012/5/4 Curt cu...@free.fr: Upgrade to the newest stable driver (I guess you'll have to use the nvidia installer, after purging the debian package) and newest

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-04 Thread Curt
On 2012-05-04, Matthias Guentert matthias.guent...@gmail.com wrote: Any real alternatives (in terms of performance, support, opensource drivers) to nvidia? I don't know. ATI's worse, IMHO. There's the new 'nouveau' nvidia driver (bilingual redundancy, anyone?), but I think it needs work. Are

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-01 Thread Matthias Guentert
2012/4/30 Curt cu...@free.fr: Well, I've been bitten a few times by the logical fallacy referred to by the Latin phrase _post hoc ergo propter hoc_, so I'm dubious concerning the usb trail, although I'm as ignorant as I am dubious. For every system freeze I have ever experienced, the guilty

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-04-30 Thread Curt
On 2012-04-25, Matthias Guentert matthias.guent...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone Lately I changed from Fedora to Debian squeeze on amd64. A few days later my system started to freeze randomly. I first noticed this behaviour while I was copying files from my system disk to my USB disk, but

Random system freezes - need your input

2012-04-25 Thread Matthias Guentert
Hello everyone Lately I changed from Fedora to Debian squeeze on amd64. A few days later my system started to freeze randomly. I first noticed this behaviour while I was copying files from my system disk to my USB disk, but don't think this is the culprit. After having searched high and low on my

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-04-25 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:10:02PM +0200, Matthias Guentert wrote: Hello everyone Lately I changed from Fedora to Debian squeeze on amd64. A few days later my system started to freeze randomly. I first noticed this behaviour while I was copying files from my system disk to my USB disk, but