Re: TIGER K8w Dual opteron crash
The problem was (somehow) related to the screensaver:
In the middle of all my fiddling I installed nvidia's module and
started to use X with the nvidia driver (instead of X's nv). I had
previously installed the nvidia libraries but with a recent kernel
upgrade I had missed to update them, so I reverted to nv. This was the
cause of the instability in my system.
Since then the machine has been up for 50 hours, running X and the
OpenGL screensavers without any problems :D
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:13:01 +0100, In The Night <x-trazy@pure64.net> wrote:
> I had the exact same problem on my previous GFX-card (MSI GeForce FX5600).
> The problem was when running 3D apps like OpenGL-screensavers, the GPU got too hot.
>
> When I downclocked the GPU and Mem on the GFX-card. the problem went away.
>
> So, it's probably some weak hardware on your GFX-card (And you might look into getting a chassis with better airflow).
>
> On Friday 07 January 2005 12:54, Aritz Beraza Garayalde [Rei] wrote:
> > > First of all, thanks for all the sugestions.
> > >
> > > I've ran memtest on the machine and it revealed no errors. After that,
> > > I've had it running, with exactly the same programs it used to run on
> > > the time of the crashes (chrooted 32bit vnc, some java apps and our
> > > custom print accounting programs) and I haven't seen the crash again.
> > >
> > > The only difference is that now when I'm not sitting in the machine I
> > > switch over to the console. So, I'm betting this is some problem with
> > > my videocard. I'll try leaving it running on X today and if it crashes
> > > again I'm going to replace the nvidia card.
> > >
> >
> > Maybe it's a screensaver problem. Try to disable screensavers and use
> > a black screen instead. Or maybe xscreensaver trys to put your system
> > in suspend mode and that's what hangs your computer.
> >
> > Aritz Beraza [Rei]
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