Le Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:04:34PM +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit : > Speaking of your previous messages, I'm still slightly confused by an > apparent contradiction that you can maybe clarify: > > On the one hand, you said that disabling the DRI avoids the freezes. If > that is still the case, this indicates that the freezes are GPU lockups. > (BTW, would disabling the DRI not be a viable workaround?) > > On the other hand, you said that after killing the frozen X server, > another X server comes up and works. That's inconsistent with a GPU > lockup but could be related to another problem referenced previously.
Hi Michel, I stopped using the machine for 6 months (the hard drive crash happened in November), so I unfortunatly do not remember what I did to "disable the DRI". I regret I have not documented it. There is some variability in the symptoms of this bug, so it makes the things even more confusing. I remember that once I had to restart GDM because killing X was not enough. But I wonder whether in some previous times killing X by ssh was enough. Today I restarted the machine via ssh, and it kept displaying the frozen X screen until the shutdown was completed. I am not completely sure, but it seems that the more I move the mouse when the freeze happens, the likelier that I will not be able to log in by ssh. Also, I have experienced intermediate steps in which one window does not respond before everything gets frozen. I hope that the upgrade will fix the problem, it just seems too complicated to handle. PS: disabling DRI would also be viable, I do not think I need it for the moment. But who knows for later ? Thanks a lot for the care you give to this puzzling bug. If I do not report anything in the next weeks, please anybody feel free to ping me. -- Charles
