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Re: toshiba video problem



On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 17:20:01 +0200, Noah Sombrero <fedora@fea.st>
wrote:

>On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 06:50:01 +0200, Felix Miata
><mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-05 22:18 (UTC-0400):
>>
>>> Everything is ok until I load a program of any size, pan, kmail,
>>> thunderbird, worker file manager.  Worker immediately freezes up
>>> debian.  This was not true at 1024x768.
>>
>>Using which DE or WM?

This is X, Cinnamon environment.

>Konsole, Worker & MC are all running fine here @1440x900 on
>>a 1680x1050 display, though without any RAM shared by the GPU. 
>
>That would make it hard to compare.  But resource monitor shows:
>
>cpu1 & cpu 2 both running at about 30%, with the system idle and only
>resource monitor running.  Memory shows 53% of 1.25gb used.  Swap not
>used at all, 8 gb.  
>
>If I widen the System Monitor display on the processes page an inch or
>so, debian crashes.  Could this be a cpu issue?  Why is cpu usage so
>high?
>
>>On all old limited
>>resource systems like this I automatically ease up the load by disabling
>>compositing

How can I do that?

>, as well as using a lightweight DE:
>># free
>>               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
>>Mem:         1542280      146580      903320        1296      492380     1206724
>>Swap:         192744           0      192744
>># inxi -GSayz
>>System:
>>  Kernel: 5.10.0-13-686 arch: i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
>>    parameters: ro root=LABEL=<filter>
>>  Desktop: Trinity info: kicker wm: Twin v: 3.0 vt: 7 dm: TDM
>>    Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
>>Graphics:
>>  Device-1: NVIDIA NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] driver: nouveau v: kernel ports:
>>    active: VGA-1 empty: DVI-I-1,TV-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0322
>>    class-ID: 0300
>>  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: nouveau
>>    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa alternate: nv gpu: nouveau display-ID: :0
>>    screens: 1
>>  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1440x900 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 380x238mm (14.96x9.37")
>>    s-diag: 448mm (17.65")
>>  Monitor-1: VGA-1 model: Lenovo L2251x Wide serial: <filter> built: 2011
>>    res: 1440x900 dpi: 77 gamma: 1.2 size: 474x296mm (18.66x11.65")
>>    diag: 559mm (22") ratio: 16:10 modes: max: 1680x1050 min: 720x400
>>  OpenGL: renderer: NV34 v: 1.5 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes
>># xrandr
>>Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1440 x 900, maximum 4096 x 4096
>>VGA-1 connected primary 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
>>474mm x 296mm
>>   1680x1050     59.97 +  74.89
>>   1280x1024     75.02    60.02
>>   1440x900      74.98    59.89*
>>   1152x864      75.00
>>   1024x768      75.03    70.07    60.00
>>   800x600       72.19    75.00    60.32
>>   640x480       75.00    72.81    66.67    59.94
>>   720x400       70.08
>>DVI-I-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
>>TV-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
>># cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-extensions.conf
>>Section "Extensions"
>>        Option          "Composite" "Disable"
>>EndSection
>>
>>The mozilla.org build of Firefox ESR52 and of SeaMonkey 2.49.5 run too:
>># free
>>               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
>>Mem:         1542280      592224      136556       19900      813500      719904
>>Swap:         192744        2840      189904

So, I ran System monitor and got cpu readings of 30% on both 1 & 2.
Ram usage was 53%

I started FireFox, cpu readings went to 60-70%, ram usage went to 63%
ram and .1% swap.  That was with no web page loaded.  Debian died at
that point.

Like windows task manager, it seems that a lot is going on that
doesn't get shown on such tools.  The important thing, I think is
that, if I boot into root, where the video adjustment is not made
remaining 1024x768, I can load Worker and use it causing no problem.
In normal user mode, Worker causes immediate debian shutdown.
-- 
Noah Sombrero


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