Re: Asus motherboard hangs in X
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 04:59:21PM -0500, Russ Cook wrote:
> I have an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard with AMD Athlon 4800 dual
> core cpu, with 4 MB of Corsair TwinX ram sticks. I have an older
> GeForce4 MX 420 graphics board with 64 MB ram. I have updated my bios
> to version 1303, with no impact. I am running kernel
> 2.6.8-11-amd64-generic. I have also run the smp kernels, with the same
> problem.
>
> When interacting in X, the system will hang unexpectedly. I can ssh to
> the machine from another box, and the command 'top' will show eithe
> XFree86 or Xorg (whichever is running) to be using 100 % cpu (when
> running smp).
>
> The machine has never frozen on me when running commands from ssh at
> another box. Google search has shown many people having similar
> problems with various motherboards. I have run memtest on all my memory
> sticks, one at a time, and all together, with no detected faults.
>
> I also tried loading the nvidia video driver, but no help.
>
> I have tried the Knoppix 5.0.1 and Kubuntu 6.06 live CDs, and get the
> same problem. Is anyone else running this same motherboard without
> problems? If you had problems and solved them, can you share your
> process?
I've had a similar problem, but it went away when I installed Ubuntu.
Whatever they've done right, I hope it propagates to Debian soon.
By the way, I had the same problem whether in 32 and 64-bit more,
and whether I used the vesa, nv, or nvidia drivers.
>
> Does Nvidia offer drivers for the NForce4 motherboard chipset, and if
> so, does it make any difference? I plan to upgrade my video board, but
> I want to get a stable system first, before putting more $ into it.
> Could the older video board be part of the problem?
>
> Any help most gratefully accepted.
>
> Thanks,
> Russ
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