On 12/22/05, bardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problems are on my laptop. I installed all the packages, and > everything is fine, but just for a few minutes. Then, it hangs my > machine completely, without any warning. I don't take any particular > action that could cause the freeze, it just happens. > I don't know where to look, since the freeze is total, and no logs are > being written... Ideas?
You've checked the usual place for the X log, IIRC '/var/log/X*.log'? Also, if you can, try to ssh into your laptop from your other machine. Many times I've found that my "freeze" is really just hardcore CPU thrashing from X, so I couldn't do anything, but everything else was still working. In those cases, I could 'killall -9 X' and try again. Also, "those cases" were when I was having trouble using the nvidia driver with the compositor turned on. I'm sure you would've heard about these problems by now, but maybe this is something new. If you're using the nvidia driver, try switching to nv. Stability is almost always better--at a slight sacrifice for speed--and I read (on Slashdot, IIRC) that the driver should perform much better. Or try turning off the compositing extension. Hope this helps, Andrew -- http://aconkling.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
