On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Bjarne Thomsen wrote: > I have had about 4 cases where the keyboard > and graphics freeze since RC2 using gnome 2.4 > (with updates from cooker). The cursor can be moved. > I can login via ssh. Everything seems to be working > except X is using 99.7% of CPU time. > I killed X but the keyboard and screen was stil > frozen, but now with white horizontal stripes. > I had to shutdown the PC via ssh. > > > kernel 2.4.22-9mdk-i686-up-4GB > XFree86-4.3-23mdk > NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4363 > > > The problem could be with the nvidia driver as > previously suggested on this list. > The only problem is that I have been using the > nvidia 4363 driver since April without a single > freeze, and now I have had 4 within a week with RC2.
I'm pretty sure it's nvidia. It used to be fixable by disabling XRenderaccel in the XF86config, but that was not the real cause of the problem (they have never fixed it). Symtems are exactly as you describe, and if you remote login and trace X it is in a loop (lots of SIGALRMs). It could even be a real X bug triggered by nvidia, but nobody is going to debug it without the driver source I think. d.
