Bug#278724: Info received (was Bug#278724: [nv] system hang when using gv, xmms, or lopster on NV5 [Aladdin TNT2] rev 0x20)
Ennio-Sr wrote:
>Hi!
>in my last mesage relating to the captioned bug I wrote (Nov. 24, 2004):
>----------
>I'm glad to inform you that changing the Section "Screen" DefaultDepth
>from 24 to 16 the problem seems to have disappeared: at least I could
>run my famous test (i.e. gv foo.txt) many times without locking the
>system :-)
>
>Although I think you could reasonably close the bug, one question
>remains: I had not set that value to 24 and, if I recall well, when I
>configured X in old Woody and tried to run it with the wrong value, some
>'goblin' would come out from within the X Window System and tell me
>that depth 24 was not supported by my video card!
>----------
>
>Despite that I did experiment many other hanging-up, but still I had no
>clue as to what was happening, so I didn't report them.
>To-day, after my PC froze again, I took different steps which may
>possibly throw some light on the subject.
>I had all six consoles opened as follows:
>F1 - root (idle)
>F2 - user (idle)
>F3 - user (idle)
>F6 - user -->start x --> running lopster (on F7)
>F5 - user -->startx -- :1 --> running speedy (on F8)
>then I opened
>F4 - user -->startx -- :2 --> running mplayer -vo xv -autosync 1 file.mpg (on F9)
>after half minute watching on F9, the screen (and the PC) froze.
>
>I ssh-ed in with my laptop and run top, which showed an XFree86
>abosrbing from 60 to 94,6% of CPU!
>Instead of rebooting (as in past occasions) I killed the above high
>absorbing XFree86 process and nothing changed; killed .xinitrc running
>on tty4 (running mplayer on F9, the screen the PC had frozen on) and
>nothing happened; killed .xinitrc on tty5 (running speedy on F8) and saw
>a black line across my F9 screen: something had happened!
>While trying all the CTRL-ALT+F1 through F6 I could see part of the F9
>screen progressively full of garbage blacking-out the window ...
>finally, CTRL-ALT+F7 showed me the window where lopster was running and
>after that I could re-gain control of my PC!
>
>While still having the laptop connected via ssh I tried to reproduce the
>hanging-up doing again the same steps and watching from top running on
>the laptop what went on on the PC: the speedy-preloader took almost 45%
>CPU and about 49% was taken by XFree86 when I launched mplayer ...;
>after a while (i.e. whan F9 window froze), XFree86 was absorbing up to
>96,5% CPU.
>
>What I can conclude from my un-technical point of view is that it's the
>CPU's lack of resources to cause the freezing and wonder whether there
>could be a sort of pre-warning as to avoid it.
>
>Thanks for your attention and for your wonderful work.
>Regards,
> Ennio
>
>
>
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