Re: Radeon driver and Xfree86
> I too have been experiencing "lock ups" every so often, but I don't
> think it's because of my graphics card (ATI Rage 128 Pro). With me it
> happens a while after I leave xmms playing a bunch of mp3's (by then
> xscreensaver has been active for a while). Sometimes the music will
> just stop playing. When I come back, the monitor is blank, but nothing
> I do (move the mouse, press keys) brings the monitor back. I have to
> press to on/off/sleep button on the computer. When I do, it seems that
> system goes through a normal shutdown (ie. as if I had typed "shutdown
> -h" at the prompt). I can then bring the computer up and it comes up
> normally without checking file systems, etc. I've experienced this
> about 2 or 3 times in about the last two weeks. I'm running testing
> (etch).
>
Interesting -- that sounds like the machine is still running.. can you
connect to it on SSH or ping it still when it gets into that state? If
you can still log in then you might be able to just kill off the X
process and have it start again without needing the reboot. Also,
there might be some more informative logging that you can take a look
at.
With my issue there is no ping, the screen has a frozen image of what
was on the screen at the time.
I swapped out the motherboard yesterday afternoon to another one that
I had previously used. The hardware configuration is now the exact
same setup that ran Windows XP fine for ~1 year. I just need to wait a
few weeks to see if the problem has gone away..
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