Re: Windows-like crashes!
hi
maybe it is due to nvidia drivers. they are notoriously buggy. there are
a lot of complains regarding it causing x-lockups, and they never worked
for me. for example, while running X, if i switch to console, and then
back to X, it causes a lockup. you may try switching back to nv driver
(provided by XFree86) instead of nvidia driver, and see if the problem
exists. if problem goes away by switching back to nv, start bugging
NVidia for buggy drivers.
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Andrew Overholt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been successfully using Debian Woody for about 8 months now and I
> am proud to say that it's not my default boot. Recently I've been trying
> to get XMPS working and after trying to watch a DivX with crappy quality,
> I decided to upgrade to the NVidia drivers from their site. This went off
> without a hitch and now I get the nice NVidia logo when starting
> Enlightenment.
>
> Last night, I decided to recompile my kernel without SMP support (I saw
> that I had it compiled in and that it would run faster without it. After
> running make xconfig, I ran make dep modules modules_install. This
> resulted in an error at the SMP part of the compilation at which point I
> realized that I have some screwed up kernel source 'cause this happens
> every time I try to compile without SMP support.
>
> Oh well, I said, and went to bed. Today I turned on my machine and the
> X-Server wouldn't connect (text login vs. normal gdm). I thought this was
> weird so I tryed `startx'. This also did not work and after a few hours
> of messing around with different things, I recompiled my Nvidia drivers
> and now have working gdm again.
>
> HOWEVER, whenever I try to play an MP3 in XMMS or view a movie in XMPS,
> the computer locks up completely! I mean, we're talking Windows-like
> jamming (but without the mouse moving) without a Ctrl-Alt-Del response or
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace either. I have to hard reset my computer and then I
> get the usual fsck stuff which says there were "detached" inodes (I
> think ... or something like that) which get fixed (after entering the
> root password) and then the cycle repeats itself.
>
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
>
> My machine:
>
> Celeron 466
> 224 MB RAM
> 8.4 GB Fujitsu (hda)
> 40 GB Maxtor (hdb -> hdb3 = /)
> Diamond Viper V770 (TNT2)
> Debian Woody
> 2.4.2 Kernel
> XFree86 4.0.2 (with Nvidia server 1.0? from last week)
>
> Thanks very much in advance,
>
> Andrew
>
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> Andrew Overholt
> EngSci 0T3
> Junior Bnad Leedur of the Lady Godiva Memorial Bnad
> ERTW
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