On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a pair of NVIDIA cards (a Geforce2 TI AGP card and a
> TNT2 M64 PCI card). I'm running XFree86 4.1.0 (on Debian).
> Generally it works fine. I'm using the nv driver, as I'm
> told the nvidia driver doesn't support multiple cards (and
> it locked up my system a lot when I tried it).
The NVIDIA driver supports multiple cards (I have a GeForce2 +
TNT2 system as my main development machine), but it sometimes
has a difficult time posting the second head properly so you
may have to Option "UseInt10Module" to the Section "Device"
for the secondary card (the one the console does not come up
on).
>
> Anyway I find that if I leave my system idle for a long
> period (overnight, or while I'm at work during the day), the
> X server is unhappy when I get back.
>
> I find that I can move the mouse between the desktops fine,
> but as soon as I click on a window, I can no longer move
> the mouse between desktops, nor type anything in any window
> or do anything with the mouse. I can't switch to another
> terminal either (Ctl-Alt-F1 etc).
Is is not likely to be a nv driver problem. If the server
hung in the driver, the mouse should still move as that is
an asynchronous entry point.
>
> I can login remotely and kill (-9) xdm and the X server
> and restart it and it all works fine again, until next time.
Is the server eating CPU?
Did you build the server yourself? If it hasn't been
stripped you should attach with gdb and see where it's hung
at. From the sounds of it (the cursor not moving) it's
hung in core XFree86 input code. If it's not eating CPU
then it's probably stuck on select or something.
Mark.
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