Re: XFree86 hangs - 99% CPU usage

["Doug" <SupportList@dougtheslug.ca>]

This machine is the main node in my cluster, it has 768M of ram, and 2gigs of swap.  As for vesa, I haven't really tried
them, because I need nvidia drivers to run programs like maya, but I will try it anyways.

lastly, for the WM, the first install I did, I only tasksel'd the x window system, and it did it's very first hang using
xdm, with neither kdm or gdm even installed.

appreciate the feedback, I will try xdm again just incase, and I will see what the vesa driver does.  Barring that, I
will be attempting to do what the other person suggested, try a knoppix cd, and get the xf config from that.  I am
skeptical it will do anything, but I have fixed problems before by trying every little thing, even if it seems like a
really long shot.

-rp

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kent West" <westk@acu.edu>
To: <debian-user-digest@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 5:30 AM
Subject: Re: XFree86 hangs - 99% CPU usage


> Doug wrote:
>
> >continuing on, I have reinstalled the entire machine from scratch.  This time, leaving my sources.list with stable.
> >
> >it still hangs when I go to load X (I use runlevel 3 to run X, I default to runlevel 2, which I have as just a
console
> >login)
> >
> >any other things I can try to get this Xserver from using 99% of my cpu power and making the machine itself
unresponsive
> >expect to ssh from a remote computer?  This is rather annoying because I can't run anything gui on the local machine.
> >
> >
> >
>
> You got plenty of RAM? An active swap partition?
>
> Have you tried VESA instead of nVidia drivers?
>
> Try removing gdm/kdm, and just use startx. Try a simple window manager
> instead of KDE or Gnome.
>
> --
> Kent
>