On 04/07/12 01:12 PM, Camaleón wrote:
On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:10:24 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th or 5th time
recently.
There is nothing is the syslog...nothing in the xorg log. The system
just locks changing what's on the screen to yellow tinged text. It locks
so tight that only a hard reset gets it back. Alt-SysReq does nothing.
(...)
Can you still login from ssh? If so, X is crashing.
Yes, but nothing works
Also, if you can, try to load "vesa" or "fb" VGA driver instead "intel",
although with KMS in place I don't know if this is still possible neither
the steps to proceed.
I have done that - fbdev **seems** to run fine - except the mouse
cursor disappears at random. Found it too annoying so went back to the
Intel driver...and it hasn't locked up yet today (crossed-fingers). The
Vesa driver is next to useless as it really doesn't like doing anything
more than 800x600.
I am running an Intel D865GBF board, and Intel on-board video.
That's an old motherboard, right? :-?
Yes, about 5 or 6 years old...but from prowling the net it seems
newer Intel boards aren't much better. I'd still like to hear advice on
the best/easiest video card to run. I ran Nvidia for a while but got
tired of constantly recompiling whenever a new kernel popped up. I'd
like something other than Nvidia.
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Cheers
Frank
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