Xorg Totally but Totally Frozen!!!

tony · 2005-10-20 14:25:00

I realy need help - after more than a month I was fighting with this problem but without any succes. I thought that there is something wrong with my hardware so I tried to install another distro but it worked well I mean without the problems I want to mention. I've done some research and found that many others have same problem and that it was not solved very well. I tried to build another kernel with pkgbuilt from AUR installed it but it didn't help at all.

Here some links:

first at home http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … er+freezes

then neighbours
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-19 … a130a6159a
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-33 … 9e7328d2f9

I have to say that I'm down I cannot understand how to solve that. I use nvidia card and never had any problems before.

Please help me.

tony

Mr Green · 2005-10-20 14:44:42

Could you post a link to your xorg.conf

Need just a little more info, it would help....

tony · 2005-10-21 04:17:51

Yes, this is my Xorg.conf file from previous post where I had problem with framebuffer.

link:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … highlight=

thogie · 2005-10-21 05:08:06

Same problems here with my PC.

I use a IBM X22 Laptop with a D-Link DWL G650 WLan PCMCIA Card and a builtin Radeon card. Over kdm I can logon and use KDE for a while. After an infrequent amount of time the computer feezes totally. No mouse, no keyboard - nothing.

When I start in console modus the Laptop works without problems. I can download packages, etc without freezes. Therefore I would blame the problem to xorg or KDE.

I am using windows at the moment and there are no freezes thus I excluded a hardware problem.

Here is what I alread did in order to pin down the problem (without success?!):

I first thought that the freezes are related to my wireless card (because it produces much of RX transmission errors but that is another story) but they even appear with the card unplugged and the modules unloaded.

Using KDE I installed Gnome to give it a try. But still complete system freezes after infrequent times. Changed system language from german to englisch completly erasing my .kde directory (because the system seemed to run longer after starting gnome in standard englsich). No change.

Changed several times from hotplug to lshwd and back because I thought that it might be a module load problem. Switching to lshwd solved some udev problems I encountered in /var/log/errors (Oct 15 12:25:58 CAESAR udev[3609]: main: action, subsystem or devpath missing) but still no change with the freezing problem.

Tried to "stress" the PC a little bit by starting many application at startup. Openoffice, unison, thunderbird, sim, skype, etc. but the freezing times still occured infrequently.

Looking in /var/log/Xorg.0 does not give any obvious failure to me.

Sorry that I do not have my xorg.conf at hand but I will post it in order to solve the problem.

Cheers
thogie

Mr Green · 2005-10-21 08:09:12

Try using hwd to create a xorg.conf ... see if that works.

Had locks up in Arch64 which turned out to be a problem in xorg.conf (my fault :oops: )

HTH

thogie · 2005-10-21 09:01:29

Unfortunately hwd -x does not help stopping the freezes. Just tried it and PC stopped working after 30 sec or so :cry:.

But thanks for the input .

Mr Green · 2005-10-21 11:54:01

ok .... what kernel you using?

thogie · 2005-10-21 12:38:38

kernel26 2.6.13.4-1

mpie · 2005-10-21 12:56:45

my suspect would be the driver for the graphics chip...

However the other links refer to nvidia cards as does your post in relation to your PC

you lappy lists a radeon -- usually ATI

(have you tried the nvidia -legacy drivers for your pc)

what chip is in the laptop, on board is a little generic.....

same for your pc what is the actual chip...

may help in trying to answer your questions

thogie · 2005-10-21 13:14:10

To quote myself:

[...] and a builtin Radeon card.

As I created the xorg.conf by hwd -x the radeon card was found correctly. And no obvious failures with dmesg.

Any other ideas? Contact me via ICQ! I would really like to get my archlinux back to work.

tony · 2005-10-21 13:25:57

I didn't try nvidia-legacy driver yet but I'll try today and post the result and as for my hwd:

Athlon XP2400, Chip Gigabyte KT7VAXP

Graphic Card: MSI GeForce 6200 ( NX6200-TD128E )

Before I changed to that card I had 64MB Gforce from the same producer but at the end(before the change to new one) the same problem.
It all started by (I think) some kernel update but I don't remember which one. Meanwhile I tried different kernels but without any succes - I mean I built them with abs.
(BTW: I tested the last release of Ubuntu and all went good. But I don't want to switch to another distro. Arch is the only distro which was on my desktop for last year - never happened before.)

Please Help

mpie · 2005-10-21 13:54:44

Nah dont try nvidia -legacay your card should be fine with the normal nvidia drivers dont use xorg's nv that is next to usless..
what was the start of the problem was it the swith to gcc4 or a kernel upgrade, as both kernel and modules must be built with same gcc

are you full -Syu

have you tried the ati drivers for your LAP TOP

Please disable any extra options (such as dri or compostie) in your xorg conf set to default depth 16
and see how it behaves

thogie · 2005-10-21 15:43:43

I am using the xorg radeon drivers that are included. BTW the inbuilt card is an ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 with 8MB of RAM.

Disabled DRI in the xorg.conf (default depth was 16bit).
Started KDE: This time it took much longer but still - bang! System completly froozen.

Any suggestions? May the ati prop driver help?
Any ideas how I could pin the problem further down?

mpie · 2005-10-21 16:03:01

ok so the chip is fairly recent probably worth trying the ati ones ..

I my memory serves me right, x has several different ati drivers built into it but these are for very old chips.. chould be worth experimenting.

please post the xorg.conf files

Gullible Jones · 2005-10-21 20:39:43

You know, if there's one thing that annoys the heck out of me about XOrg, it's that it's capable of hard freezes. I'm fine with everything else about it; but if something screws up, it should just exit! :x

SamuraiDan · 2005-10-22 10:13:57

Tony: This problem is with the nvidia driver AFAIK. Nvidia say it will be fixed in the -8xxx series driver.

In the meantime you can try the old 6629 driver - the last one known without these problems - see my post here
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=15420
and see if you get any improvement.

tony · 2005-10-22 14:54:12

Thank you SamuraiDan, I'll try and let you know. Today before your post
I tried to reinstall everything again hoping I don't know for what but of course without any succes - (old driver?! *#@!!!! uck - hope you're right).

thogie · 2005-10-23 01:17:44

I tried to install the ati prop driver. Downloaded the graphical installer from the ati webpage (~ 60MB) started the ati-driver-installer-8.18.6-i386.run and :cry: another comlete freeze of my system.

I will try today the packages from the aur repository (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … s=0&SeB=nd).

Here is my xorg.conf. This is the one that was created by hwd -x.

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
# PS/2 Mouse not detected
# Serial Mouse not detected
        InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"  "true"
    
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
# Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
#    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi"
#    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi"
# True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig!
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/CID"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "ddc"  # ddc probing of monitor
    Load  "GLcore"
    Load  "dbe"
    #Load  "dri"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "glx"
        Load  "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
    Load  "type1"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "record"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "keyboard"
        Option      "CoreKeyboard"
    Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
    Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option "XkbLayout" ""
    Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Serial Mouse"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option      "Protocol" "Microsoft"
    Option      "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
    Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
    Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "PS/2 Mouse"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option      "Protocol" "auto"
    Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
    Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
    Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "USB Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents"    "true"
        Option          "Protocol"              "IMPS/2"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
        Option          "Buttons"               "5"
EndSection

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    HorizSync    28.0 - 96.0 # Warning: This may fry old Monitors
    VertRefresh  50.0 - 75.0 # Very conservative. May flicker.
#    VertRefresh  50.0 - 62.0 # Extreme conservative. Will flicker. TFT default.
    #  Default modes distilled from
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    #       Timing", version 1.0, revision 0.8, adopted September 17, 1998.
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    # 720x400 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 37.9kHz
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    # 640x480 @ 60Hz (Industry standard) hsync: 31.5kHz
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    # 640x480 @ 72Hz (VESA) hsync: 37.9kHz
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    # 640x480 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 37.5kHz
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    # 640x480 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 43.3kHz
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    # 800x600 @ 60Hz (VESA) hsync: 37.9kHz
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    # 800x600 @ 72Hz (VESA) hsync: 48.1kHz
    ModeLine "800x600"    50.0  800  856  976 1040    600  637  643  666 +hsync +vsync
    # 800x600 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 46.9kHz
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    # 800x600 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 53.7kHz
    ModeLine "800x600"    56.3  800  832  896 1048    600  601  604  631 +hsync +vsync
    # 1024x768i @ 43Hz (industry standard) hsync: 35.5kHz
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    # 1024x768 @ 70Hz (VESA) hsync: 56.5kHz
    ModeLine "1024x768"   75.0 1024 1048 1184 1328    768  771  777  806 -hsync -vsync
    # 1024x768 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 60.0kHz
    ModeLine "1024x768"   78.8 1024 1040 1136 1312    768  769  772  800 +hsync +vsync
    # 1024x768 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 68.7kHz
    ModeLine "1024x768"   94.5 1024 1072 1168 1376    768  769  772  808 +hsync +vsync
    # 1152x864 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 67.5kHz
    ModeLine "1152x864"  108.0 1152 1216 1344 1600    864  865  868  900 +hsync +vsync
    # 1280x960 @ 60Hz (VESA) hsync: 60.0kHz
    ModeLine "1280x960"  108.0 1280 1376 1488 1800    960  961  964 1000 +hsync +vsync
    # 1280x960 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 85.9kHz
    ModeLine "1280x960"  148.5 1280 1344 1504 1728    960  961  964 1011 +hsync +vsync
    # 1280x1024 @ 60Hz (VESA) hsync: 64.0kHz
    ModeLine "1280x1024" 108.0 1280 1328 1440 1688   1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
    # 1280x1024 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 80.0kHz
    ModeLine "1280x1024" 135.0 1280 1296 1440 1688   1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
    # 1280x1024 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 91.1kHz
    ModeLine "1280x1024" 157.5 1280 1344 1504 1728   1024 1025 1028 1072 +hsync +vsync
    # 1600x1200 @ 60Hz (VESA) hsync: 75.0kHz
    ModeLine "1600x1200" 162.0 1600 1664 1856 2160   1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync
    # 1600x1200 @ 65Hz (VESA) hsync: 81.3kHz
    ModeLine "1600x1200" 175.5 1600 1664 1856 2160   1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync
    # 1600x1200 @ 70Hz (VESA) hsync: 87.5kHz
    ModeLine "1600x1200" 189.0 1600 1664 1856 2160   1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync
    # 1600x1200 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 93.8kHz
    ModeLine "1600x1200" 202.5 1600 1664 1856 2160   1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync
    # 1600x1200 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 106.3kHz
    ModeLine "1600x1200" 229.5 1600 1664 1856 2160   1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync
    # 1792x1344 @ 60Hz (VESA) hsync: 83.6kHz
    ModeLine "1792x1344" 204.8 1792 1920 2120 2448   1344 1345 1348 1394 -hsync +vsync
    # 1792x1344 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 106.3kHz
    ModeLine "1792x1344" 261.0 1792 1888 2104 2456   1344 1345 1348 1417 -hsync +vsync
    # 1856x1392 @ 60Hz (VESA) hsync: 86.3kHz
    ModeLine "1856x1392" 218.3 1856 1952 2176 2528   1392 1393 1396 1439 -hsync +vsync
    # 1856x1392 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 112.5kHz
    ModeLine "1856x1392" 288.0 1856 1984 2208 2560   1392 1393 1396 1500 -hsync +vsync
    # 1920x1440 @ 60Hz (VESA) hsync: 90.0kHz
    ModeLine "1920x1440" 234.0 1920 2048 2256 2600   1440 1441 1444 1500 -hsync +vsync
    # 1920x1440 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 112.5kHz
    ModeLine "1920x1440" 297.0 1920 2064 2288 2640   1440 1441 1444 1500 -hsync +vsync
    # Additional modelines
    ModeLine "1800x1440"  230    1800 1896 2088 2392  1440 1441 1444 1490 +HSync +VSync
    ModeLine "1800x1440"  250    1800 1896 2088 2392  1440 1441 1444 1490 +HSync +VSync
    # Extended modelines with GTF timings
    # 640x480 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 50.90 kHz; pclk: 43.16 MHz
    ModeLine "640x480"  43.16  640 680 744 848  480 481 484 509  -HSync +Vsync
    # 768x576 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 35.82 kHz; pclk: 34.96 MHz
    ModeLine "768x576"  34.96  768 792 872 976  576 577 580 597  -HSync +Vsync
    # 768x576 @ 72.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 43.27 kHz; pclk: 42.93 MHz
    ModeLine "768x576"  42.93  768 800 880 992  576 577 580 601  -HSync +Vsync
    # 768x576 @ 75.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 45.15 kHz; pclk: 45.51 MHz
    ModeLine "768x576"  45.51  768 808 888 1008  576 577 580 602  -HSync +Vsync
    # 768x576 @ 85.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 51.42 kHz; pclk: 51.84 MHz
    ModeLine "768x576"  51.84  768 808 888 1008  576 577 580 605  -HSync +Vsync
    # 768x576 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 61.10 kHz; pclk: 62.57 MHz
    ModeLine "768x576"  62.57  768 816 896 1024  576 577 580 611  -HSync +Vsync
    # 800x600 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 63.60 kHz; pclk: 68.18 MHz
    ModeLine "800x600"  68.18  800 848 936 1072  600 601 604 636  -HSync +Vsync
    # 1024x768 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 81.40 kHz; pclk: 113.31 MHz
    ModeLine "1024x768"  113.31  1024 1096 1208 1392  768 769 772 814  -HSync +Vsync
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    # 1152x864 @ 85.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 77.10 kHz; pclk: 119.65 MHz
    ModeLine "1152x864"  119.65  1152 1224 1352 1552  864 865 868 907  -HSync +Vsync
    # 1152x864 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 91.50 kHz; pclk: 143.47 MHz
    ModeLine "1152x864"  143.47  1152 1232 1360 1568  864 865 868 915  -HSync +Vsync
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    ModeLine "1280x960"  124.54  1280 1368 1504 1728  960 961 964 1001  -HSync +Vsync
    # 1280x960 @ 75.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 75.15 kHz; pclk: 129.86 MHz
    ModeLine "1280x960"  129.86  1280 1368 1504 1728  960 961 964 1002  -HSync +Vsync
    # 1280x960 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 101.70 kHz; pclk: 178.99 MHz
    ModeLine "1280x960"  178.99  1280 1376 1520 1760  960 961 964 1017  -HSync +Vsync
    # 1280x1024 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 108.50 kHz; pclk: 190.96 MHz
    ModeLine "1280x1024"  190.96  1280 1376 1520 1760  1024 1025 1028 1085  -HSync +Vsync
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    ModeLine "1400x1050"  122.61  1400 1488 1640 1880  1050 1051 1054 1087  -HSync +Vsync
    # 1400x1050 @ 72.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 78.77 kHz; pclk: 149.34 MHz
    ModeLine "1400x1050"  149.34  1400 1496 1648 1896  1050 1051 1054 1094  -HSync +Vsync
    # 1400x1050 @ 75.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 82.20 kHz; pclk: 155.85 MHz
    ModeLine "1400x1050"  155.85  1400 1496 1648 1896  1050 1051 1054 1096  -HSync +Vsync
    # 1400x1050 @ 85.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 93.76 kHz; pclk: 179.26 MHz
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    ModeLine "1400x1050"  214.39  1400 1512 1664 1928  1050 1051 1054 1112  -HSync +Vsync
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    ModeLine "1600x1200"  280.64  1600 1728 1904 2208  1200 1201 1204 1271  -HSync +Vsync
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Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "radeon"
    VendorName  "All"
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Section "Screen"
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tony · 2005-10-23 08:53:00

SamuraiDan Thank you but its not better.

thogie · 2005-10-24 01:51:13

Finally I managed to install the ati propiertary drivers. But my card is not supported (only radeon >9000 and radeon mobile >7500)...

Googled (google:radeon 7000 +xorg) a little bit about xorg and the inbuilt ati radeon drivers and it looks like a bug of xorg 6.8 and my radeon mobile 7000 :-(. Unfortunately I think I have to wait for a xorg update.

Thanks for all the input.

Cheers
thomas

tony · 2005-10-24 12:25:18

I've been thinking about recompiling(with ABS) xorg + kernel in my comp. This way I could prevent to have these packages compiled by different gcc?? What do you think about it? does it make any sense to you???

tony · 2005-10-24 12:38:35

tony wrote:

I've been thinking about recompiling(with ABS) xorg + kernel in my comp. This way I could prevent to have these packages compiled by different gcc?? What do you think about it? does it make any sense to you???

Edit: Do you have any idea if this helps or does it make any sense to you:

nvidia-kernel packages older than 1.0.6106 only support kernels using an 8K stack size. More recent kernels (2.6.6 and higher) have support for 4K stack size's as well. Do not select 4K stack size in your kernel configuration if you are using such an nvidia-kernel package. You can find this option in the section Kernel Hacking.

tony · 2005-10-26 10:56:58

So it seems that no other NVIDIA users have the same problem. But let me ask a question is this dependent on the model of the particular card or manufacturer?
BTW yesterday I tried to install : Suse 9.3 – same, PCBSD – same, (Desktop BSD – was not able to install - didn't boot at all).

Please experienced users Dusty, Diblethewrecker, Theoden, Rensel and the others don't let me down.

Help me please.
:cry: :cry: :cry:

scarecrow · 2005-10-30 16:01:18

Dunno if it helps, but my fairly new laptop is unusable with kernel 2.6.13.4: Sometimes the boot sequence halts due to ACPI errors, some other times it boots into KDE but it's dog slow/unstable. It does have an nvidia 6800 videocard, and I do use the "nvidia" driver.
With the Archck kernel it works just great (after some fancy footwork to make the Marvel Yukon online ethernet and the Realtek ALC880 HD audio to work properly- but that's another story).

clarence · 2005-10-30 16:37:17

tony: some problems i've experienced in the past with my nvidia card...

:: udev + xorg = mouse at /dev/input/mice otherwise x crashes.
:: xorg.conf Section "Device" needs BusID "PCI:1:0:0" or x crashes.

Best of luck.

Arch Linux

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