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tony

Member

Registered: 2004-10-11

Posts: 108

Re: Xorg Totally but Totally Frozen!!!

First of all thank you all for your replies. As for the problem between many other replies-possible solutions I found this:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-33 … locks.html

especialy this part: Option "NvAGP" "0" is interesting for me cause for now it works like this. One thing I use the last IDE kernel and old driver made in June from nvidia site(but maybe it works with arch nvidia driver as well but fornow I dont want to test it for obvious reasons - after more thean month of reinstalling its quite enjoyable to be user again).

Thats all I can say for now(now I can prepare some "nice" screenshot for Arch Screenshots    )

tony

Skyscraper

Member

Registered: 2005-06-20

Posts: 72

Re: Xorg Totally but Totally Frozen!!!

Same problem here. My Arch Linux BOX (current state of packages) freezes in X (XFCE4) very often even 5 times day. I'm using nvidia card (GF4Ti). I'm sick of this
Maybe i'll try to downgrade some parts of the system (KERNEL) and turn off hotplug, autofs, maybe i'll try to recompile my own kernel with all drivers compiled into kernel.

My second workstation which is waiting for recent THE HUGE GCC4 UPGRADE (but has got quite fresh packages) freezes not too often - maybe 2 times so far since 2 months (Nvidia too)...

heh... best luck for us Archers

Skyscraper

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Registered: 2005-06-20

Posts: 72

Re: Xorg Totally but Totally Frozen!!!

OK one, whole day without any "frozen crash"(TM)
Yesterday I changed 'nvidia' to 'nv' driver in Xorg.conf. I disabled 'nvidia' module in MODULES section in rc.conf and hashed in modprobe.conf but hotplug deamon detects my VGA card on startup and loads nvidia modul
Nevermind, after that I'm testing my ssytem and all seems to work fine... without GL acceleration of course

Mr_Tee

Member

Registered: 2006-09-17

Posts: 7

Re: Xorg Totally but Totally Frozen!!!

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

I have actually the same problem. Pls help!

Mr_Tee

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Registered: 2006-09-17

Posts: 7

Re: Xorg Totally but Totally Frozen!!!

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Logitech Deluxe Access Keyboard" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...
#    FontPath     "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi"
#    FontPath     "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi"
# True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig!
    RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/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/share/fonts/defoma/CID"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "freetype"
    # Load "xtt"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "xtrap"
    Load  "type1"
    Load  "speedo"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option        "AllowMouseOpenFail" "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

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Logitech Deluxe Access Keyboard"
    Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"   
    Option        "CoreKeyboard"
    Option        "XkbModel" "logidak"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "de"
    Option        "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    HorizSync    30.0 - 63.0
    VertRefresh  56.0 - 75.0
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
    Option        "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
    Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "radeon"
    Card        "** ATI Radeon (generic)               [radeon]"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
    Driver      "fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
        Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
        Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

I have this Problem without the fglrx drivers, too

Mr_Tee

Member

Registered: 2006-09-17

Posts: 7

Re: Xorg Totally but Totally Frozen!!!

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Logitech Deluxe Access Keyboard" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...
#    FontPath     "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi"
#    FontPath     "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi"
# True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig!
    RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/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/share/fonts/defoma/CID"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "freetype"
    # Load "xtt"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "xtrap"
    Load  "type1"
    Load  "speedo"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option        "AllowMouseOpenFail" "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

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Logitech Deluxe Access Keyboard"
    Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"   
    Option        "CoreKeyboard"
    Option        "XkbModel" "logidak"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "de"
    Option        "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    HorizSync    30.0 - 63.0
    VertRefresh  56.0 - 75.0
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
    Option        "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
    Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "radeon"
    Card        "** ATI Radeon (generic)               [radeon]"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
    Driver      "fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
        Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
        Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

I have this Problem without the fglrx drivers, too

errors.log gives me following message very often.

BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0

What schould I do ?