Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X [Solved]

2012-08-21 Thread Gary Aitken
On 08/21/12 10:22, Ian Smith wrote: > Those guys were losing 768MB or more, but had plenty to spare. You? 16G so not a big problem, but that doesn't mean I like giving it away... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X [Solved]

2012-08-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:54:14 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > Having run for a couple of days now without problems, > I'm guardedly optimistic I've solved this problem. > It appears the problem had nothing to do with screen blanking. > The solution was to disable memory mapping in BIOS, > whose pu

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X [Solved]

2012-08-21 Thread Gary Aitken
Having run for a couple of days now without problems, I'm guardedly optimistic I've solved this problem. It appears the problem had nothing to do with screen blanking. The solution was to disable memory mapping in BIOS, whose purpose is to recover the memory addresses reserved for hardware in old

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X

2012-08-19 Thread Gary Aitken
On 08/19/12 10:11, Ian Smith wrote: > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 428, Issue 7, Message: 4 > On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:51:07 -0600 Gary Aitken > wrote: > > On 08/16/12 00:04, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > On 16/08/2012 05:45, Gary Aitken wrote: > > ... > > >> Running 9.0 release on an amd

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X

2012-08-19 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 428, Issue 7, Message: 4 On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:51:07 -0600 Gary Aitken wrote: > On 08/16/12 00:04, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 16/08/2012 05:45, Gary Aitken wrote: > ... > >> Running 9.0 release on an amd 64 box, standard kernel, 16GB, SSD (/, > >> /usr, /va

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X

2012-08-17 Thread Gary Aitken
On 08/17/12 20:29, Matthew Navarre wrote: > > > On Aug 17, 2012, at 7:00 PM, Warren Block wrote: > >> On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: >> >>> On 08/17/12 14:44, Warren Block wrote: >>> If that stops the lockups, then you could try setting each in turn to a non-zero value (minu

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X

2012-08-17 Thread Matthew Navarre
On Aug 17, 2012, at 7:00 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> On 08/17/12 14:44, Warren Block wrote: >> >>> If that stops the lockups, then you could try setting each in turn to a >>> non-zero value (minutes). Leave everything at zero except for the one >>

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X

2012-08-17 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: On 08/17/12 14:44, Warren Block wrote: If that stops the lockups, then you could try setting each in turn to a non-zero value (minutes). Leave everything at zero except for the one being tested. But these also seem unlikely, as it's a hardware signal

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X

2012-08-17 Thread Gary Aitken
On 08/17/12 14:44, Warren Block wrote: > If that stops the lockups, then you could try setting each in turn to a > non-zero value (minutes). Leave everything at zero except for the one being > tested. But these also seem unlikely, as it's a hardware signal from the > video board to the monito

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X

2012-08-17 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: On 08/16/12 00:04, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 16/08/2012 05:45, Gary Aitken wrote: ... Running 9.0 release on an amd 64 box, standard kernel, 16GB, SSD (/, /usr, /var, /tmp) + HDDs, visiontek 900331 graphics card (ati radeon hd5550). As long as I am usin

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X

2012-08-17 Thread Gary Aitken
On 08/16/12 00:04, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 16/08/2012 05:45, Gary Aitken wrote: ... >> Running 9.0 release on an amd 64 box, standard kernel, 16GB, SSD (/, >> /usr, /var, /tmp) + HDDs, visiontek 900331 graphics card (ati radeon >> hd5550). >> >> As long as I am using the system, things seem to b

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X

2012-08-15 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 22:45:47 -0600 Gary Aitken wrote: > I've been struggling trying to ignore something and it refuses to go > away :-(. > > Running 9.0 release on an amd 64 box, standard kernel, 16GB, SSD > (/, /usr, /var, /tmp) + HDDs, visiontek 900331 graphics card (ati radeon > hd5550). >

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X

2012-08-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 16/08/2012 05:45, Gary Aitken wrote: > I've been struggling trying to ignore something and it refuses to go > away :-(. > > Running 9.0 release on an amd 64 box, standard kernel, 16GB, SSD (/, > /usr, /var, /tmp) + HDDs, visiontek 900331 graphics card (ati radeon > hd5550). > > As long as I am

9.0 release hang in quiescent X

2012-08-15 Thread Gary Aitken
I've been struggling trying to ignore something and it refuses to go away :-(. Running 9.0 release on an amd 64 box, standard kernel, 16GB, SSD (/, /usr, /var, /tmp) + HDDs, visiontek 900331 graphics card (ati radeon hd5550). As long as I am using the system, things seem to be fine. However,