Strange lockups

murkus · 2006-12-03 13:13:20

Occasionally, luckily not too often, I get strange lockups on my computer. For example, just a moment ago all programs stopped responding and keys didn't work. I was browsing the net while listening music and dl'ing stuff with bittorrent. Then, all I could do was move the mouse pointer. I couldn't change to a console or anything. ctrl+alt+del or ctrl+alt+backspace didn't work either. I had to reset the computer.

The big question is of course, what is behind this and how can I find it out? Any ideas?

.murkus

chrismortimore · 2006-12-03 13:23:09

Could you click things with the mouse, or was the pointer just moving?
What browser do you use? And what plugins do you have installed for it? I find that flash quite often breaks things.
Are you running anything outwith the current, extra and community repos?

murkus · 2006-12-03 13:52:01

It has happened with both, gnome and kde environments. When it has happened I've had either Konqueror or Firefox open. (but not both at the same time)

The music kept on playing, but all I could do was move the pointer. Clicking anywhere didn't have any effect.

.murkus

dolby · 2006-12-03 13:54:36

blame the nvidia driver probably. post the result of dmesg |greg nvagp

murkus · 2006-12-03 14:13:10

after reboot:

# dmesg | grep nvagp
#

Nvidia driver sounds good guess though..

.murkus

lanrat · 2006-12-03 15:31:24

Hint: don't use power switch. Enable sysrq option and use it to reboot safely (with the logs saved :-)).

broch · 2006-12-03 16:45:59

Changing agpgart to nvagp worked (Option "NvAGP" "1") for me

if yoy have nvidi mobo this requires kernel re-compilation without agpgart (blacklisting does not work). For non nvidia mobos blacklisting works usually (you would have to check this).

One thing, if you go to linux nvidia forum, you will see a lot of resolutions that worked in specific conditions.
What definitely works is changing nvidia to nv

rztka · 2006-12-18 12:42:04

hi murkus did you solve your problem?

i get exactly the same hungups on my laptop after latest upgrades.. it doesn't have nvidia card, it is a few years old acer aspire with intel chipset.

so i'm afraid (at least in my case) it must be something different from nvidia driver.. do you guys have any other suggestions?

thanks, t.

murkus · 2006-12-18 12:46:01

Well, I kinda forgot that thing since I haven't had any lockups since posting the message. [knocks on wood]

I have updated my system since, though.

.murkus

rztka · 2006-12-18 12:58:14

lucky you!!

it happens to me quite often now.. and i did last pacman -Syu this morning. and i need the laptop for work grrrrrr. livecds do the trick but they make everything a bit slow

so i'll keep upgrading and hopefully find some time during xmas to look for solution, thanks anyway!

t.

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Strange lockups

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