On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:53:57PM -0700, Avishai wrote: > hello all, > > I'm experiencing a rather head-splitting pain with my debian amd64 > machine. The symptoms > are not severe, but annoy me to no end: running xscreensaver, or > video, or anything which is a bit heavy on graphics and audio is > always accompanied by 'hiccups' or 'lockups' or 'hangs' or I don't > know how to call them. I mean the graphics just freezes for a fraction > of a > second and then resumes. Also, running xscreensaver with anything but > the simpler programs will always result in a total system hang: the > infamous 'screen frozen, but mouse pointer moves' bug. > Right now I'm runnning the new etch release with a 2.6.18-4-amd64 > kernel, but the problems were the same with unstable. I've tried all > possible settings of the AGP rate and driver using the nvidia driver, > and the open-sourced 'nv' driver, nothing seems to matter :( > I'm completely lost here. Really. :'( > anyone? > thanx, > Avishai. >
what does top show during these incidents? run top in a terminal where you can see it while this is happening. A
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