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#1 2011-03-01 16:26:17

ReedWood
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Freeze on a MacBook 7,1 Unibody

Hallo all,

I have a fresh Arch Linux installation on a MacBook (not Pro) 7,1 Unibody. I am using the nvidia proprietary drivers from the repo for the nvidia graphic card. System is up-to-date. Acpid is running. Laptop-Tools are not running.
The maschine freezes 1-2 times per day. Nothing in the logs.

I appreciate any hint and help. If needed, I am happy to provide additional information.

Thank you for your help.
Cheers Wolfgang

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#2 2011-03-01 19:01:19

litemotiv
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Re: Freeze on a MacBook 7,1 Unibody

Freezes can be difficult to debug sometimes, which wifi driver are you using?


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#3 2011-03-01 19:45:54

Grinch
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Re: Freeze on a MacBook 7,1 Unibody

I read earlier of someone else with the same problem, he said it was something with the NVidia drivers and that the problem disappeared when he installed the Nvidia-beta drivers.

edit: this seems to be a recurring problem with .37, so this solution likely only applies if you are running that version of the kernel.

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#4 2011-03-02 19:18:26

ReedWood
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Re: Freeze on a MacBook 7,1 Unibody

Hi,

@litemotiv:
The wifi card is a Broadcom BCM43224 802.11./b/g/n (rev a2).
The driver I am using is the brcm80211

@Grinch:
I am using the .37 kernel. At the moment the .2-1 update comes in and I will try the nvidia beta drivers. Thanks for the information.

I keep you updated if I can figure out the reason for the freezes.

Cheers, Wolfgang

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#5 2011-03-02 19:29:33

Grinch
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Re: Freeze on a MacBook 7,1 Unibody

ReedWood wrote:

I keep you updated if I can figure out the reason for the freezes.

Cheers, Wolfgang

Please do, chances are there's others with the same problem. Good luck!

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#6 2011-03-02 20:05:42

ReedWood
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Re: Freeze on a MacBook 7,1 Unibody

I have now installed the nvidia-beta drivers (nvidia-beta, nvidia-utils-beta) from AUR [1]; now awating the next freeze. Hopefully, this wait-time will approach infinity.

If this seems to be the cure I will post it.

P.s.: There have been some download errors while installing the drivers, but just ignore them and then continue with the installation leads to a working system. Should this be reported to the nvidia-beta packager?

[1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15152

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#7 2011-03-02 23:10:56

litemotiv
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Re: Freeze on a MacBook 7,1 Unibody

Yes, any issues specific to the installation of the package are best posted on the AUR page.


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#8 2011-03-03 23:07:48

Grinch
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Re: Freeze on a MacBook 7,1 Unibody

So what's the verdict? Are you still experiencing system freezes?

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#9 2011-03-06 21:06:46

ReedWood
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Re: Freeze on a MacBook 7,1 Unibody

Hi all,

the system freezes are still there. I think by now that not the nvidia driver, stable or beta, is the problem but the wifi driver. As per [1] and dmsg the driver (brcm80211) is still not stable (stagging tree). The post in the suse forum also describes frequent freezes.

Now I have installed the broadcom-wl driver from AUR. The card comes up fine. Lets see what I can gain on the crash side. I will let you know.

[1] http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get- … ost2238826

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#10 2011-03-07 05:51:25

Grinch
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Re: Freeze on a MacBook 7,1 Unibody

Ok, here's hoping the broadcom stuff fixes it for you then! I've read of alot of freezes with the .37 release so it would be good to pinpoint the exact problem.

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#11 2011-03-07 23:30:05

ReedWood
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Re: Freeze on a MacBook 7,1 Unibody

One day _without_ a freeze. A bit too early to conclude, but I have a good feeling.

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#12 2011-03-09 10:52:46

pano
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Re: Freeze on a MacBook 7,1 Unibody

I am suffering from freezes too, and I also use the proprietary NVidia driver and the brcm80211 driver…
My freezes only occur when I wake up from stand-by though.
Does your system freeze too after waking up from stand-by?

my system is up-to-date as of today.

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#13 2011-03-18 13:50:41

ReedWood
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Re: Freeze on a MacBook 7,1 Unibody

Hi,

sorry for not responding.

No, my system does not freeze any more.
The only hint I can give you is to try out the broadcom-wl from aur. Using e.g. bauerbill makes installing aur packages a cake walk. My system and my network wake up fine.

Onother thing I have experienced is that if the system is on battery after ca. 2 sec of inactivity the mouse pointer can not be moved until a mouse button is pressed. This button press however is evaluated as a valid user action. I think that the system stops to poll the usb port when on battery, but I only know this behaviour from the MacBook. My Lenovo does not act this way. Laptop-mode-tools are tourned off by the way.

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#14 2011-05-02 13:34:24

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Re: Freeze on a MacBook 7,1 Unibody

I have experienced very similar issues on my Macbook Pro 6,2.

I actually suspected network drivers before coming here because it froze twice right after getting failed DNS lookups while using pacman/ping. I will try out the broadcom-wl driver now to see if that helps.

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#15 2011-05-02 23:46:41

andy.christianson
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Re: Freeze on a MacBook 7,1 Unibody

It looks like the broadcom-wl driver did fix my freezing issue. However, when I use that driver, I have problems connecting USB devices (Samsung Intercept) with errors like this in my dmesg output:

[  181.150061] usb 2-1.3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
[  181.648840] usb 2-1.3: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[  182.114478] usb 2-1.3: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[  182.297241] usb 2-1.3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 10
[  182.729588] usb 2-1.3: device descriptor read/64, error -71

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