Re: System freeze
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:45:53AM -0600, Stephen Olander Waters wrote:
> All of you with X system freezes,
>
> Check the top of your dmesg for any warnings about "aperture size". I
> kept getting freezes because my AGP aperture was too small (32MB) for
> what Linux wanted (64MB) on a Radeon 9200 256MB. I hadn't noticed the
> warning because X didn't complain in Xorg.0.log and the kernel driver
> didn't complain when X was loading.
On my ubuntu system (the one that doesn't crash)
hendrik@april:~$ dmesg | grep -i aperture
[ 0.000000] Checking aperture...
[ 0.000000] CPU 0: aperture @ 0 size 32 MB
hendrik@april:~$
hat's on my Ubuntu system, which does not freeze.
Will try etch (same machine, dual boot) when I get the chance.
By the way, how does one change the aperture size? Or is it
hardware-determined?
I have nvidia graphic chips on the motherboard. I get crashes in etch
but not in dapper. Can't try etch right now because I have several
users on the system. Will try tomorrow.
-- hendrik
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