Re: Xfree86 taking up 99% of cpu and hanging system NVIDIA 6600 GT video card
Nvidia 6600 GT video card
Nvidia proprietary driver
Gigabyte GA-7DPXDW-P Dual AMD MP Motherboard
Opengl apps freeze machine.
On Monday 07 March 2005 06:02 pm, you wrote:
> Exactly the same problem on the same setup. I came home this afternoon
> to find X frozen and only a remote reboot would bring it back. X has
> worked perfectly in the past, the only change I can think of was an
> `apt-get upgrade` last night. The packages (dated yesterday in
> /var/cache/apt/archives) were:
Me too
I did an apt-get upgrade yesterday myself!
But I bet that is not the problem! Listen to my proof.
I am sure it is an nvidia hardware driver problem that is revealed when
Opengl applications are invoked.
I bet you are using a really cool opengl screen saver :).
Even though I used to do apt-get update/ apt-get upgrade all the time, I
stopped doing it as much when i installed an Nvidia 5950 a few months ago and
installed the proprietary drivers. 66 something
I recently swapped into my system a Nvidia 6600 GT and returned a Nvidia 5950
to my work PC cause I wanted to work with latest nvidia software upgrade for
the 6600/6800 series ( Opengl float valued textures instead of only integer
valued textures).
So I hadn't begun using the opengl too much. I do recall vaugely that I had a
freeze recently. Then when my PC froze yesterday afternoon
while my niece was "shopping at the gap" on my PC and it recurred when I
showed my brother in law the KDE Opengl Matrix screensaver, I decided it was
time to do an update/upgrade.
As you imagine it did not help.
In fact it is fun to reproduce the problem. Startx/ open up KDE Control
Center/ open any opengl screen saver/ test it/ close it/ open another opengl
screen saver/ test it /CRASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Often can't even ssh to
machine. when you can it is 99% cpu usage with XFree86 and killing it does
not help give you back the keyboard.
It is a classic driver problem. Only a kernel driver problem can crash linux
like this. Not usual with a sid upgrade :).
I have tried moving to 2.6.10 kernel - no help.
OK. Now go to the www.nvnews.net and look in the linux support section. It is
full of people tearing their hair out about this problem. I cannot see a
working solution listed there. I see all kinds of people with problems and
others with no problems. Probably different motherboards or something.
We simply must wait for a patch. I don't know how long it will be.....
If you figure it out. let me know please.
Mitchell
> xfce4_4.2.0.xfld-7_all.deb
> libecal6_1.0.4-0.1_i386.deb
> libedataserver3_1.0.4-0.1_i386.deb
> dialog_1.0-20050306-1_i386.deb
> libsensors3_1%3a2.9.0-15_i386.deb
> libstartup-notification0_0.8-2_i386.deb
> gtk2-engines-xfce_2.3.0cvs20050306-1_i386.deb
> xfce4-battery-plugin_0.2.0.xfld-3_i386.deb
> xfce4_4.2.0.xfld-6_all.deb
> xfld-desktop_4.2.0.xfld-6_all.deb
> xfce4-systemload-plugin_0%3a0.3.5-3_i386.deb
> xfce4-netload-plugin_0.2.4-2_i386.deb
> xfce4-clipman-plugin_1%3a0.4.1-2_i386.deb
> libpango1.0-0_1.8.1-1_i386.deb
> libpango1.0-common_1.8.1-1_i386.deb
> libpango1.0-dev_1.8.1-1_i386.deb
> mozilla-firefox_1.0.1-2_i386.deb
> libgcc1_1%3a3.4.3-11_i386.deb
>
> I'm not sure of a way to diagnose this as my X log is free of errors.
> Have you had any luck?
>
> Regards,
>
> James
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