On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 08:50:50PM +0100, Bytor the Destroyer wrote: > Hello > I have been having trouble with running X. I am running kernel 2.6.0 and > sarge. I have Nvidia GForce2 MX graphic card. When I type startx the screen > flickers and then goes black. I used apt-get to install gnome and the X packages > like xfree86 and the others that it recomended. Thanks for the help in advance,
I've been having similar problems. X runs fine most of the time, but 2-3 times a week, it locks hard. While XFree is running, normally with the screen blanked, X will run away, using 98-99% of the CPU. I have to ssh in and kill XFree86, so any X apps I have running are killed as well. I have seen this on an MSI GeForce4 MX, which I then swapped with a GeForce2 MX, and have seen the same behavior exhibited. [EMAIL PROTECTED] storm]$ dpkg -l | grep nvidia ii nvidia-glx 1.0.4496-10 NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver ii nvidia-glx-dev 1.0.4496-10 NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver development ii nvidia-kernel- 1.0.4496-10+10 NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.4.23 ii nvidia-kernel- 1.0.4496-7 NVIDIA binary kernel module common files ii nvidia-kernel- 1.0.4496-10 NVIDIA binary kernel module source [EMAIL PROTECTED] storm]$ dpkg -l | grep XFree ii xfree86-common 4.3.0-0pre1v5 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure ii xlibmesa-dev 4.2.1-15 XFree86 Mesa development libraries pseudopac ii xlibmesa-dri 4.3.0-0pre1v5 Mesa 3D graphics library modules [XFree86] ii xlibmesa-gl 4.3.0-0pre1v5 Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86] ii xlibmesa-glu 4.3.0-0pre1v5 Mesa OpenGL utility library [XFree86] ii xprt 4.3.0-0pre1v5 X print server (XFree86 version) ii xserver-xfree8 4.3.0-0pre1v5 the XFree86 X server This has been going on for about 6 months, through XFree 4.2.1 and 4.3, and through the last three or four sets of nvidia drivers. This box is a 1GHz Athlon-C. I have a pair of Pentium III boxes at work (one dual 800 and a single 850) that don't seem to have the same problems. Has anyone got a fix for this? Could this be an Athlon-specific problem? I opened a support request with nVidia, but based on their generic response email, I don't expect a whole lot of help out of them. -- --Brad ======================================================================== Bradley M. Alexander | gTLD SysAdmin, Security Engineer | storm [at] tux.org ======================================================================== Key fingerprints: DSA 0x54434E65: 37F6 BCA6 621D 920C E02E E3C8 73B2 C019 5443 4E65 RSA 0xC3BCBA91: 3F 0E 26 C1 90 14 AD 0A C8 9C F0 93 75 A0 01 34 ======================================================================== Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter? -- Steven Wright -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]