Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-06-01 Thread Matthias Guentert
Hello everybody It happened again, and yes this time I was using nouveau. # lshw -c video *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: G84 [Quadro FX 1700] vendor: nVidia Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@:01:00.0 version: a1

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-21 Thread Matthias Guentert
2012/5/20 Martin Steigerwald : > Am Sonntag, 20. Mai 2012 schrieb Matthias Guentert: >> I am really running out of ideas here... and becoming unsure if the >> nvidia driver really is the culprit. I will switch back to the nv >> driver and test for another month or so... big c

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-20 Thread Matthias Guentert
2012/5/15 Matthias Guentert : >> 2012/5/4 Curt : >>> Upgrade to the newest stable driver (I guess you'll have to use the nvidia >>> installer, after purging the debian package) and newest stable kernel, >>> try the remedies/workarounds suggested here, if any a

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-15 Thread Matthias Guentert
> 2012/5/4 Curt : >> Upgrade to the newest stable driver (I guess you'll have to use the nvidia >> installer, after purging the debian package) and newest stable kernel, >> try the remedies/workarounds suggested here, if any apply: > > Okay, I'll give the latest version a try. Let's see how stable

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-04 Thread Matthias Guentert
2012/5/4 Curt : > Upgrade to the newest stable driver (I guess you'll have to use the nvidia > installer, after purging the debian package) and newest stable kernel, > try the remedies/workarounds suggested here, if any apply: Okay, I'll give the latest version a try. Let's see how stable that one

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-04 Thread Matthias Guentert
2012/5/1 Matthias Guentert : > Thanks for your reply - very appreciated. Currently I am running > Windows Vista on a third harddisk to see if a hardware fault can be > excluded being the culprit. So far I did not had one freeze since > weeks running Vista. This points back to your

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-01 Thread Matthias Guentert
2012/4/30 Curt : > Well, I've been bitten a few times by the logical fallacy referred to by > the Latin phrase _post hoc ergo propter hoc_, so I'm dubious concerning > the usb trail, although I'm as ignorant as I am dubious. > > For every system freeze I have ever experienced, the guilty party was

Random system freezes - need your input

2012-04-25 Thread Matthias Guentert
Hello everyone Lately I changed from Fedora to Debian squeeze on amd64. A few days later my system started to freeze randomly. I first noticed this behaviour while I was copying files from my system disk to my USB disk, but don't think this is the culprit. After having searched high and low on my