Bug#642497: Bug#644601: [xserver-xorg-core] hard lock-up: [mi] EQ overflowing

2011-10-20 Thread JS
X server lockups with the EQ overflowing lock message have also been reported for other types of hardware besides NVIDIA and are described in this freedesktop bug report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38029GoAheadAndLogIn=1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#642497: Bug#644601: [xserver-xorg-core] hard lock-up: [mi] EQ overflowing

2011-10-19 Thread JS
: Bug#642497: Bug#644601: [xserver-xorg-core] hard lock-up: [mi] EQ overflowing To: JS jsh...@yahoo.com, 642...@bugs.debian.org Date: Sunday, October 16, 2011, 3:03 PM [moving discussion back to your report #642497] On 2011-10-13 12:44, JS wrote: Perhaps a conflict with nouveau

Bug#642497: Bug#644601: [xserver-xorg-core] hard lock-up: [mi] EQ overflowing

2011-10-17 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2011-10-16 23:52, JS wrote: I'm not yet too familiar with the deeper issues you mention regarding adding conflicts (having only recently changed from an rpm-based system). However, trying to install the drivers directly from the NVIDIA .run file ... NVIDIA: If you have an initrd which

Bug#642497: Bug#644601: [xserver-xorg-core] hard lock-up: [mi] EQ overflowing

2011-10-17 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2011-10-17 12:52, JS wrote: Andreas, I have another system that I'm planning to convert to Debian soon and on which I can test these changes. This problem happened on my main system and I'm reluctant to test on it now that it's finally working again. I hope to get the test system

Bug#644601: [xserver-xorg-core] hard lock-up: [mi] EQ overflowing

2011-10-16 Thread JS
I had a similar problem with the nvidia driver which resulted in easy-to-reproduce X server lockups. The Xorg.0.log show the EQ overflowing message followed by message that the xserver was in an infinite loop. The bug is 642497: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=642497 It was

Bug#642497: Bug#644601: [xserver-xorg-core] hard lock-up: [mi] EQ overflowing

2011-10-16 Thread Andreas Beckmann
[moving discussion back to your report #642497] On 2011-10-13 12:44, JS wrote: Perhaps a conflict with nouveau should be added to the nvidia package to avoid this possibility, based on the warnings from NVIDIA. Adding conflicts is not a good solution as we want to allow switching between free

Bug#642497: Bug#644601: [xserver-xorg-core] hard lock-up: [mi] EQ overflowing

2011-10-16 Thread JS
#642497: Bug#644601: [xserver-xorg-core] hard lock-up: [mi] EQ overflowing To: JS jsh...@yahoo.com, 642...@bugs.debian.org Date: Sunday, October 16, 2011, 3:03 PM [moving discussion back to your report #642497] On 2011-10-13 12:44, JS wrote: Perhaps a conflict with nouveau should be added

Bug#644601: [xserver-xorg-core] hard lock-up: [mi] EQ overflowing

2011-10-15 Thread Diggory Hardy
Hi, Since then I've had one similar lock-up with the nvidia driver (but no useful error messages this time), so I switched to nouveau. In some cases nouveau works nicely, but display hot-plugging is a little finicky with the GUI interfaces sometimes leaving me with no display (annoying),

Bug#644601: [xserver-xorg-core] hard lock-up: [mi] EQ overflowing

2011-10-15 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2011-10-15 19:51, Diggory Hardy wrote: Since then I've had one similar lock-up with the nvidia driver (but no useful error messages this time), so I switched to nouveau. In some cases nouveau works nicely, but display hot-plugging is a little finicky with the GUI interfaces sometimes

Bug#644601: [xserver-xorg-core] hard lock-up: [mi] EQ overflowing

2011-10-10 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:30:57 +0200, Diggory Hardy wrote: I just had a hard lock-up (was typing at a konsole, and right after executing a command (chmod on a bunch of completely uninteresting files, no symlinks) the system locked up (neither keyboard or mouse would change screen contents,

Bug#644601: [xserver-xorg-core] hard lock-up: [mi] EQ overflowing

2011-10-10 Thread Diggory Hardy
On 10 Oct 2011 16:38, Andreas Beckmann deb...@abeckmann.de wrote: Also the combination of Xserver 1.11.1 with nvidia drivers currently does not work well (massive slowdowns have been reported). You might try to downgrade to Xserver 1.10.4, see

Bug#644601: [xserver-xorg-core] hard lock-up: [mi] EQ overflowing

2011-10-07 Thread Julien Cristau
reassign 644601 nvidia-graphics-drivers kthxbye On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:30:57 +0200, Diggory Hardy wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-core Severity: important --- Please enter the report below this line. --- I just had a hard lock-up (was typing at a konsole, and right after executing a