On 04/07/12 01:12 PM, Camaleón wrote:
On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:10:24 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th or 5th time recently. There is nothing is the syslog...nothing in the xorg log. The system just locks changing what's on the screen to yellow tinged text. It locks so tight that only a hard reset gets it back. Alt-SysReq does nothing.(...) Can you still login from ssh? If so, X is crashing.
Yes, but nothing works
Also, if you can, try to load "vesa" or "fb" VGA driver instead "intel", although with KMS in place I don't know if this is still possible neither the steps to proceed.
I have done that - fbdev **seems** to run fine - except the mouse cursor disappears at random. Found it too annoying so went back to the Intel driver...and it hasn't locked up yet today (crossed-fingers). The Vesa driver is next to useless as it really doesn't like doing anything more than 800x600.
I am running an Intel D865GBF board, and Intel on-board video.That's an old motherboard, right? :-?
Yes, about 5 or 6 years old...but from prowling the net it seems newer Intel boards aren't much better. I'd still like to hear advice on the best/easiest video card to run. I ran Nvidia for a while but got tired of constantly recompiling whenever a new kernel popped up. I'd like something other than Nvidia.
-- Cheers Frank