----- Original Message ----- > From: Steven Chamberlain <[email protected]> > To: Mar Mel <[email protected]>; [email protected] > Cc: Sven Joachim <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 5:44 PM > Subject: Re: Bug#696554: System freezes and lockups > > The reason I ask - is that I can reproduce immediate freezes that way, > and errors that resemble the ones from your kernel logs (see attached > excerpt). gnome-shell also triggers these often, which I thought was > related to acceleration or VBlank; the xfce4 desktop doesn't trigger it > at all. > > So I thought you could maybe try xfce4 for a while just to see if it is > any more stable (it can be installed alongside gnome-shell; your login > manager should give you a choice of what session to log into). > > I'd been wondering for some time if our issues had the same cause, as we > both have NV50-family cards, but my 8800 GT is a G92 chipset whereas > yours is a NVA0/GT200 chipset. So I'm not sure how 'similar' they > really are in terms of the driver code. > > Regards, > -- > Steven Chamberlain > [email protected] >
I had no idea that you also were experiencing this, or a very similar issue. That's good to know. For testing purposes, I've installed xfce4 and will hang out in it for a while to see if indeed these freezes are specific to gnome only. I specifically chose debian for my desktop to have the most stable gnome shell experience, so it'll be a real bummer if it turns out to be unusable! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
