Hi, I also have freezes on my system, mainly when the screensaver is launched, the aperture size can be adjusted in the bios setup in my case, but mine is on 128 Mb and is crashing Linux compu 2.6.17-2-amd64 #1 SMP xorg 7.0.23 not using propietary drivers. thx. hendrik> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:45:53AM -0600, Stephen Olander Waters wrote: hendrik> > All of you with X system freezes, hendrik> > hendrik> > Check the top of your dmesg for any warnings about "aperture size". I hendrik> > kept getting freezes because my AGP aperture was too small (32MB) for hendrik> > what Linux wanted (64MB) on a Radeon 9200 256MB. I hadn't noticed the hendrik> > warning because X didn't complain in Xorg.0.log and the kernel driver hendrik> > didn't complain when X was loading. hendrik> hendrik> On my ubuntu system (the one that doesn't crash) hendrik> hendrik> hendrik@april:~$ dmesg | grep -i aperture hendrik> [ 0.000000] Checking aperture... hendrik> [ 0.000000] CPU 0: aperture @ 0 size 32 MB hendrik> hendrik@april:~$ hendrik> hendrik> hat's on my Ubuntu system, which does not freeze. hendrik> Will try etch (same machine, dual boot) when I get the chance. hendrik> hendrik> By the way, how does one change the aperture size? Or is it hendrik> hardware-determined? hendrik> hendrik> I have nvidia graphic chips on the motherboard. I get crashes in etch hendrik> but not in dapper. Can't try etch right now because I have several hendrik> users on the system. Will try tomorrow. hendrik> hendrik> -- hendrik hendrik> hendrik> hendrik> -- hendrik> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-REQUEST@lists.debian.org hendrik> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org hendrik> -- Recomiendo Gimp para hacer retoque digital o banners de Internet http://www.gimp.org
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