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Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

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xorg freezing

Hey all,

I have a nasty problem. I'm running ubuntu right now.

When I boot up, most of the time my xorg server crashes hard, either directly after logging into pekwm, or occasionally right on the gdm login screen. After several cold reboots, I can get logged in and everything works fine (almost like a race condition). I can't find any error messages, but they may be getting wiped out after the cold reboot. This has been happening for about a week now. I tried downgrading xorg-server to 1.4.0.90-6, which is from a time when I'm sure the system was working fine, but its still crashing... so perhaps its not an xorg issue.

Sorry I don't have any more information, I have perused some error logs but nothing jumps out worth posting and I don't have time to delve deeper right now. But developing in Ubuntu with its quirky support for my dual screen setup just doesn't suit me, so I thought I'd ask. ;-)

Dusty

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brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: xorg freezing

First thing I'd do is recompile the nvidia kernel driver (or ati, whatever).

Dusty

Schwag Merchant

From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

Posts: 5,986

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Re: xorg freezing

I don't use a proprietary driver (intel). Since the problem wasn't 100% reproducible, I guessed it might be a race condition. I reordered my DAEMONS array, unbackgrounded a few DAEMONS, and started gdm later and it seems to be working now. This was after I totally killed my kernel somehow and broke a few other things. Now I have to fix my sound and get my cpufreq daemon running again...

Dusty

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skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: xorg freezing

Are you using the xf86-video-intel driver? I had nothing but problems with that one. Freezing, hard crashes, blow ups, you name it. I regressed to the 810 driver and everything works correctly.

kozzi

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Registered: 2006-06-24

Posts: 16

Re: xorg freezing

add this to xorg.conf device section:
Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"

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