Arch freezes after about 10 minutes with new kernel [SOLVED]

Exitium · 2008-10-14 14:20:42

As the title says: Arch freezes after about 10 minutes with new kernel (2.6.27). I can only move a mouse, but everything else is frozen. Even restarting X doesn't do a trick. It doesn't work at all. Frozen.

I don't get any kind of error message (oh really?), so what's the problem..?

Last edited by Exitium (2008-10-22 15:29:27)

test1000 · 2008-10-14 14:24:43

I had an issue with only being able to move the mouse after logging in from gdm and nothing happening but i don't know if thats the same error Sooo, are you using the right nvidia drivers? their driverpolicy just changed, and we now have 4 different official nvidia drivers in repo :S

Exitium · 2008-10-14 14:29:35

test1000 wrote:

I had an issue with only being able to move the mouse after logging in from gdm and nothing happening but i don't know if thats the same error Sooo, are you using the right nvidia drivers? their driverpolicy just changed, and we now have 4 different official nvidia drivers in repo :S

Yeah... I'm using nvidia... So the problem is nvidia drivers, not the Linux kernel?

Edit: My card is nVidia GeForce 8800 Ultra. I can't get driver information now, because I'm using WinXP right now. I'll check it later.

Last edited by Exitium (2008-10-14 14:31:38)

juan_sck · 2008-10-14 14:39:47

Exitium wrote:

test1000 wrote:
I had an issue with only being able to move the mouse after logging in from gdm and nothing happening but i don't know if thats the same error Sooo, are you using the right nvidia drivers? their driverpolicy just changed, and we now have 4 different official nvidia drivers in repo :S
Yeah... I'm using nvidia... So the problem is nvidia drivers, not the Linux kernel?
Edit: My card is nVidia GeForce 8800 Ultra. I can't get driver information now, because I'm using WinXP right now. I'll check it later.

Did you make a new install or just updated?
You can try to reinstall old kernel with:

pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kernel(version you want).pkg.tar.gz

if you made a new install you may have to install the xorg keyboard driver and so.

By the way, there are a few diferent packages for nvidia drivers. Check wich is yours.

Also check /var/log/ folder for errors.

Last edited by juan_sck (2008-10-14 14:41:03)

Exitium · 2008-10-14 15:20:27

juan_sck wrote:

Exitium wrote:
test1000 wrote:
I had an issue with only being able to move the mouse after logging in from gdm and nothing happening but i don't know if thats the same error Sooo, are you using the right nvidia drivers? their driverpolicy just changed, and we now have 4 different official nvidia drivers in repo :S
Yeah... I'm using nvidia... So the problem is nvidia drivers, not the Linux kernel?
Edit: My card is nVidia GeForce 8800 Ultra. I can't get driver information now, because I'm using WinXP right now. I'll check it later.
Did you make a new install or just updated?
You can try to reinstall old kernel with:
pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kernel(version you want).pkg.tar.gz
if you made a new install you may have to install the xorg keyboard driver and so.
By the way, there are a few diferent packages for nvidia drivers. Check wich is yours.
Also check /var/log/ folder for errors.

Updated kernel.

And as I said, I'll check the driver later.

Exitium · 2008-10-22 15:29:13

Problem solved.

So it was about the nvidia drivers. I installed drivers from http://nvidia.com and now it seems to work.

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#1 2008-10-14 14:20:42

Arch freezes after about 10 minutes with new kernel [SOLVED]

#2 2008-10-14 14:24:43

Re: Arch freezes after about 10 minutes with new kernel [SOLVED]

#3 2008-10-14 14:29:35

Re: Arch freezes after about 10 minutes with new kernel [SOLVED]

#4 2008-10-14 14:39:47

Re: Arch freezes after about 10 minutes with new kernel [SOLVED]

#5 2008-10-14 15:20:27

Re: Arch freezes after about 10 minutes with new kernel [SOLVED]

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Re: Arch freezes after about 10 minutes with new kernel [SOLVED]

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