On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 20:47 -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: > Several times now I've experienced a total freeze of my computer while X > is active. The machine is unresponsive to keyboard and network, and even > to the ATX soft-power button. It requires me to unplug its power cable > and reset the CMOS before it will boot again. I do not know for sure that > this is an X problem, but since it was happening on a twice-daily basis > using the 6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 packages, and only happens once every few days > since I backed down to -4, that is where my suspicions lie.
I don't see any obviously related changes in the changelog between -4 and -5 though... > Can anyone suggest how to debug this sort of crash? I'm willing to try > just about anything. First of all, does disabling the DRI work around the problem? PS: This should probably be a bug report instead of only a list thread. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
