On Tue, 2001-12-25 at 22:52, tester wrote: > Dave Seff wrote: > > >Ok, Not to reopen an old wound, But I think I've narrowed down this Freeze > >thing. Now my machine just froze a minute ago. I could, however, ssh from one > >of my other machines. and running top indicated that X was a runaway process. > >If I kill it (-9 is the only sig I could use to kill it), The systems goes > >into deep freze. Machine lockup, mouse froze, ssh session froze (Kernel > >panic?) another time this happened I ssh'ed in and ran strace against X. It > >was looping SIGALARM over and over, and over. > > > >I have a K7T266 Pro2 with an Nvidia GeForce2. (Nvidia's latest driver) > > > >So what are my options at this point? Is this X's fault, or NVidia's? > > > >-Dave > > > Heeheehee Someone on the expert list mentioned thisd within the past > week--his instability problems disappeared when he reloaded the older > (1541?) driver. > > Civileme > > > > Hmmmm, I have had a similar problem with the older and latest NVidia drivers as well as with two machines that have Matrox G400 cards. My Nvidia machines only seem to freeze up when running OpenGL apps or anything that switches video modes. The Matrox machines lock up if I switch video modes often, especially when running VMware fullscreen. This makes me think it may be an X problem. Unfortunately I have not had time to diagnose the problem with greater detail. I usually just ssh into the box and issue a shutdown -r because I am in a hurry to get the box back up. :(
Hopefully I will find some time to investigate further. -Pete
