Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> writes: > On 2010-03-30 00:21, Perttu Muurimäki wrote: >> Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> writes: >> >>> On 2010-03-27 12:57, Perttu Muurimäki wrote: >>>> Hi again, >>>> >>>> Problem: Screen freezes until I touch any key or move the mouse. >>> When does the freeze *start*? >> >> Sometimes when I'm not typing or moving the mouse. Once per 5 minutes >> perhaps. Usually when something else is going on - for example typing >> url and waiting for the browser to render the page just to realize that >> it has done so several seconds ago but display doesn't show >> it. Sometimes in the middle of window managers menu creation. I can see >> the whole menu area but it contains only half of the entries. >> >>>> For >>>> minutes I can just stare at Gkrellm and see the clock (and everything >>>> else) not doing anything. Everything on screen has stopped at whatever >>>> they were doing at the moment it freezed. However, in the background >>>> everything works (so the machine itself is alright) since the second I >>>> touch 'shift' -key the display comes back alive and I see things - that >>>> were running when display freezed - finished. This happens every few >>>> minutes. I am developing a shift -hitting habit :| >>>> >>>> I'm not sure whether kernel or X is the culprit. Graphics chip is intel >>>> 845g and the X-driver is xserver-xorg-video-intel. Kernel is >>>> linux-image-2.6-amd64 2.6.32 and I've tried with kernel mode setting and >>>> without. > > My first guess is xserver-xorg-video-intel, but I've been wrong before. >
This time You were right :) I found an oldish nvidia card in our "stuff room" and with that (and xserver-xorg-video-nv) everything seems to work flawlessly. Now that the culprit is known I can file a decent bug report against it. Thank You. >>>> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. >>>> >>> Can you ssh in from a different machine while it's frozen? >> >> YES! In fact I've tested this by going two floors down to server room, >> login there, ssh from there to my workstation, find that everything works and >> then come back. Nothing on the screen has changed! > > When that happens again, I'd run back down to the server room, ssh in > and tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log and ~/.xsession-errors. > > -- > "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak > or the timid." Dwight Eisenhower -- -- Perttu Muurimäki perttu.muurim...@iki.fi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87iq8cb7y6....@elisanet.fi
