Dale wrote:
Paul Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Dale<[email protected]> wrote:
Well, I got rid of openldap. It runs longer but still crashes so I
am back
to Fluxbox again, which works fine. I also started with a fresh .kde4
directory. That seemed to help more than anything else. It lasted
a LOT
longer after that. I don't know if it was a coincidence or what but
it did
lock up once when I logged into Konsole as root.
I started a emerge -e world this time. This thing has 4 cores so it
won't
take to long. Any ideas on what else I can try? If this emerge
doesn't
help, it has to be a config file somewhere.
Again, I'm pretty sure it is not hardware. It runs fine when
compiling in a
console and I have run from systemrescue stick as well. Hardware
seems to
work fine.
Ideas?
It's a long shot, but since you're using nvidia, I had random lockups.
It turned out to be due to faulty handling of the on-by-default
aggressive power savings mode of my Nvidia card. It was solved by
placing this undocumented incantation, pieced together from various
Google searches, in my xorg.conf device section for my video card:
Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia GT 240"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "RegistryDWords" "PowerMizerEnable=0x1;
PerfLevelSrc=0x3322; PowerMizerDefault=0x1; PowerMizerDefaultAC=0x1"
EndSection
After that, everything works wonderfully.
You can also use nvidia-settings to change the power saving mode at
run-time, but it does not save it and you must do it every time you
log into X, which is annoying. The xorg.conf method above requires no
further action.
Your card may not even support PowerMizer, who knows? I thought I'd
mention it just in case.
I haven't updated the drivers in a while. Would something like that
just up and change even with no upgrade? I ask because I don't
honestly know the answer. Also, would it not cause problems in
Fluxbox as well? I played video in Fluxbox last night and it never
missed a beat. I use smplayer to play videos just like I do in KDE.
This is what sort of confuses me. KDE was locking up usually in less
than a minute after logging in. After getting rid of openldap, it did
the same. After renaming my .kde4 directory, it lasted several
minutes before locking up. During one lockup, I even got the SysReq
key to work and could reboot. The last time was a HARD lock up
complete with the flashing lights on my keyboard.
If this still locks up after emerge -e world and a reboot, I'm not
sure what to do next. That should eliminate a corrupt file. Renaming
.kde4 fixed KDE config problems so that doesn't leave much. I'm going
to log into my test user and see what if anything it does. I'm not
going to do any tinkering with settings, just the default stuff. I'll
post back later what it does.
Dale
:-) :-)
I added the line to my xorg file. Just in case. ;-)
I logged into my test user with a clean .kde4 directory. It took a few
minutes but it did lock up when I opened Konsole again. I booted my USB
stick again and did a check on the file systems. It says everything is
fine but I'm doing a fresh install on my spare drive. It was a drive
that I got along with my video card. Anyway, I'm going to test the new
drive here in a little while and see if it still locks up or what. I
copied over some files in /etc and my world file plus distfiles. I'm
trying not to copy over any more than I have to.
Dale
:-) :-)
