Mitchell Laks wrote: > On Wednesday 13 July 2005 09:42 am, David Garamond wrote: > >>Dear all, >> >>I'm having a repeatable system freezes with Firefox 1.0.4 on my new >>system (Athlon64 3000+, Abit AV8, Sarge/Sid mix). By freeze I mean >>screen, keyboard, and mouse pointer suddenly stop responding (and no >>lights at all on the keyboard LEDs, even when Caps Lock etc are >>pressed). If some audio happens to be playing (e.g. juk) it will >>continue to play until the current song is finished. I will then have to >>press the Reset button to recover. > > I am curious. It seems you can reproduce the problem. Is it X that is > hanging. > Can you ssh into your box, run top and see if XFree86 is running 99.9 % of > cpu usage? just an idea - also what is your video card on the machine? > > If so, try to kill -9 the XFree86 process and then you can do remote reboot. > let me know what you find. > mitchell
You hit the nail on the head, it was X that was hanging. The XFree86 was eating CPU like you said and "killall -9 XFree86" recovered the machine by returning me to the GDM login dialog box. My video card is GeForce2 MX 400. I have replaced the "nv" driver with "nvidia" and the freezes are now gone. I'm back a happy man. Thanks! Regards, dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
