Are you sure it's not the OpenGL screen savers that are breaking
things?
Could be bad ram or a thermal problem.
I'm not aware of any such problems in the "nv" driver itself.
Perhaps you could make sure you've got ACPI/APM support turned
off in the motherboard bios. Power management can do this kind
of stuff sometimes.
Mark.
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Simon Burr wrote:
> I'm getting some unusual crashes with the 4.3.0 server; the server itself is
> runs fine for a period of time and then will crash in one of two ways:
>
> o Gets itself into a loop of some sort consuming CPU - a truss shows that
> its not making any system calls during this. Whilst its doing so it uses
> around 98-99% of the CPU on the system.
>
> o Connection refused messages. Whilst existing windows work fine any attempt
> to communicate with the server (ie xset, trying to run xterm, etc) will
> result in a connection refused by display :0.0
>
> The period of time for this to happen appears to be dependant on how much
> graphical work the server has to do. I've found that if I leave Mozilla running
> or use anything other than the "blank" mode of xlockmore then the crash will
> occur faster. Thus at the end of the day, if I quit mozilla and only use the
> blank screen lock thenthere is a 50-50 chance of the server having crashed
> overnight - note that there doesn't need to be server usage for the crash to
> occur.
>
> The system is running Solaris 8 on Intel. The graphics card is a GeForce 2 MX
> 100 with 32Mb of memory built onto the motherboard. Its using the nv driver
> running at 1280x1024x24. There aren't any problems mentioned in the log file.
>
> Anyone have any ideas ?
>
> Thanks.
>
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