Bug#696554: System freezes and lockups

[Mar Mel <marmel6942@yahoo.com>]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org>
> To: Mar Mel <marmel6942@yahoo.com>; 696554@bugs.debian.org
> Cc: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 5:44 PM
> Subject: Re: Bug#696554: System freezes and lockups
>
> The reason I ask - is that I can reproduce immediate freezes that way,
> and errors that resemble the ones from your kernel logs (see attached
> excerpt).  gnome-shell also triggers these often, which I thought was
> related to acceleration or VBlank;  the xfce4 desktop doesn't trigger it
> at all.
> 
> So I thought you could maybe try xfce4 for a while just to see if it is
> any more stable (it can be installed alongside gnome-shell;  your login
> manager should give you a choice of what session to log into).
> 
> I'd been wondering for some time if our issues had the same cause, as we
> both have NV50-family cards, but my 8800 GT is a G92 chipset whereas
> yours is a NVA0/GT200 chipset.  So I'm not sure how 'similar' they
> really are in terms of the driver code.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Steven Chamberlain
> steven@pyro.eu.org
>

I had no idea that you also were experiencing this, or a very similar issue.
That's good to know.

For testing purposes, I've installed xfce4 and will hang out in it for a while
to see if indeed these freezes are specific to gnome only. I specifically chose
debian for my desktop to have the most stable gnome shell experience, so
it'll be a real bummer if it turns out to be unusable!