Re: X freezing.
Greetings all.
Another update on my X display problem.
I have letters scattered randomly & widely over the screen in a terminal
outside of Xfree. The random freezes are still occuring about every 30
minutes or so.
I now suspect I may have a failing video card.
Any suggestions?
Chris W.
On March 24, 2005 06:52 pm, Chris Wakefield wrote:
> Hi Dave.
>
> Thanks for the good suggestions.
>
> I've tried a few of them. Right now I'm running on the "buggy" X and
> monitoring from my other machine at the same time. I've dropped the number
> of proggies.
> Still not sure what's up, and I'll inform the thread when I figure it out.
>
> Thanks again.
> Chris W.
>
> On March 24, 2005 05:36 pm, David Liontooth wrote:
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > To try to isolate the problem (I have no clue and others may have better
> > suggestions), I would start just X, without running a desktop manager.
> > Just type X at the command prompt -- that is to say, don't run gdm at
> > boot, or kill it and log in without running X-windows, then type X.
> > Open a new CLI (Ctrl+Alt+F2) and run top to see CPU usage. If you see
> > the same behavior, you know the problem in in XFree86, not in any number
> > of other apps that run when you run X-windows. I would in that case take
> > the problem to the Debian X-strike force, and active and responsive
> > bunch.
> >
> > OTOH, the problem may well lie somewhere else, and running X alone works
> > fine. In that case, you could start a terminal session inside X-windows
> > with a command like
> >
> > xterm -display <your machine name>:0 &
> >
> > (I've only tried this on remote systems running a vncserver), and then
> > start one application at a time until you find the culprit. Sometimes
> > moving the configuration files temporarily out of the way helps (for
> > instance, ~/.kde). Or you could run icewm as your window manager and see
> > if you get the same problems.
> >
> > Dave
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