On Wednesday, 18 January 2006 at 23:02:04 +0100, waldek wrote: >Eric Dan wrote: > >> hi, >> >> lately i have been expering a lot of desktop freezing. Happens about >> once a day. sometimes the mouse can be used but i can't click on >> anything and the keyboard is dead, other times everything freezes even >> the mouse. I can't even use ctrl-alt-backspace to quit X. have to just >> reboot the computer. >> i run arch 0.7.1 >> on amd athlon xp >> >> anybody an idea what could be going on? > >hi! >same with me. I've been struggling with this problem for at least two-three >weeks. Freezes completely while using X. I tried kernel downgrade, nvidia >downgrade, ndiswrapper reinstall. I monitor CPU temperature and it is never >higher then 48 Celcius even after 10 hours of 100% load. I still have XP >partition on it and the bastard runs rock solid so I rather rule out hw >problem. >I've been trying to install kexec/kdump to get a memory dump (god I'd love >to get a blue screen) - see the thread in the forum. >Anyway my system became extremely unstable and I have no clue why. > >Good luck, I haven't given up yet :-) > >waldek
maybe it's really the nvidia. I think that was just updated in the repo a little while ago. I'll try to downgrade. > > >_______________________________________________ >arch mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch -- Eric Dan UCLA ID #103297286 [EMAIL PROTECTED] *vladuz976* _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
