Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:57:39 -0800 (PST) From: Dino Vliet <dino_vliet@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: gobbledegeek@gmail.com Subject: Re: Xorg/Gnome/KDE freeze on latest release Message-ID: <866993.43027.qm@web51111.mail.yahoo.com>
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Forwarded Message From: "Gobbledegeek" <gobbledegeek@gmail.com> CC: gobbledegeek@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:07:45 +0530 Subject: Re: Xorg/Gnome/KDE freeze on latest release Plain Text Attachment [ Scan and Save to Computer | Save to Yahoo! Briefcase ] PS: This can happen some 10-15 mins into an X session, not always immediately on login. Suspect applications are firefox 1.5.0.8 and firefox2.0 and Konqueror. Seems to happen soon after launching any of these applications. Regards On 1/18/07, Gobbledegeek <gobbledegeek@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello All > > I've been seeing system freezes on freebsd 6.2 Release and also the > older RC2. Absolutely No errors reported in logs. Suddenly the mouse > cursor movement is reduced to a crawl, and the keyboard freezes. > Mouse-clicks do not launch any applications or switch tasks. I > cannot switch back to vty1/2/3... or any console and had to resort > to cold-starting a dozen times to recover from the hangs in the last > few days, dirtying my filesystem in the process each time.. sometimes > had to reinstall corrupted kde/xorg packages > > I'm writing this mail from windows, so I do not have the uname and > Xorg logs with version numbers, but from memory its > > freebsd 6.2 release#3 i386 machine. Xorg release 6.9. KDE version 3.5.4 . > > In case my version number recall is mistaken - Gnome/KDE are the > versions obtained remotely on the 15th of Jan. I did cvsup and > buildworld steps today 17th of Jan. The problem has remained since > RC2. I did not have X during RC1, so I don't know if it was > present in that release. > > This is on an athlon64 cpu soc 754 with nforce3 250gb chipset with > Radeon 7500. DRI is loading correctly on startup. No hangs on > windoz, so its not a hardware issue. Unless its got to do with > freebsd drivers for usb wireless (iBall) keyb/mouse. But the system > never hangs if I don't load X/Gnome/KDE. Sound/Artsd seems to work > fine. > > I see this on both regular 4.4BSd and ULE scheduler based kernels > > Please reply-to-all as I am not subscribed. > > -- > Rgrds > GobbledeGeek > [Everything but Gobbledegook.. !!] > -- Rgrds GobbledeGeek [Everything but Gobbledegook.. !!] I once had these same problems on a slightly different machine (amd64 with nforce4 motherboard and nvidia 6600TC GPU). The problem was in the Xorg driver. You should try to narrow it down and disable Xorg and see if you are still noticizing freezes. (In my case, it would only behave like this in combination with X) My solution was to run the vesa driver in xorg and I have never had any problems anymore. Good luck. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097
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