Re: problem: system freezes. [SOLVED]

2013-09-12 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/12/2013 12:30 PM, poma issued this missive: On 12.09.2013 20:37, William Mattison wrote: After getting side-tracked yesterday, I did this this morning. Routine use of my Linux system afterwards showed no problems. I believe this is one of those things that can be proven wrong, but not

Re: problem: system freezes. [SOLVED]

2013-09-12 Thread g
On 09/12/2013 01:37 PM, William Mattison wrote: Good afternoon, afternoon. After getting side-tracked yesterday, I did this this morning. Routine use of my Linux system afterwards showed no problems. I believe this is one of those things that can be proven wrong, but not correct. So I'm

Re: problem: system freezes. [SOLVED]

2013-09-12 Thread poma
On 12.09.2013 20:37, William Mattison wrote: > After getting side-tracked yesterday, I did this this morning. Routine use > of my Linux system afterwards showed no problems. I believe this is one of > those things that can be proven wrong, but not correct. So I'm closing this. > > Thank-you

Re: problem: system freezes. [SOLVED]

2013-09-12 Thread William Mattison
Good afternoon, Rick Stevens wrote: > Yeah, that's typically the driver having issues or memory problems. > Next, we need to see if you're running the nvidia or nouveau drivers. > You can look at the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file and see which driver is > loaded. Alternately, try (as root): > >    l

Re: problem: system freezes.

2013-09-10 Thread g
On 09/10/2013 03:57 PM, William Mattison wrote: Good afternoon, I ran the memtest86+; it passed - 100%. I'm curious: is there a way to test the gpu? If yes, how? yes. many ways. depending how you word it, via ixquick; "testing gpu" = About 14,145 results https://ixquick.com/do/se

Re: problem: system freezes.

2013-09-10 Thread William Mattison
Good afternoon, I ran the memtest86+; it passed - 100%. I'm curious: is there a way to test the gpu?  If yes, how? > That's the one. So it's an nVidia GeForce GTX660. > Yeah, that's typically the driver having issues or memory problems. > Next, we need to see if you're running the nvidia or nou

Re: problem: system freezes.

2013-09-10 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/10/2013 11:20 AM, William Mattison issued this missive: Good afternoon, Rick Stevens wrote... > Need a lot more info: > > Make and model of computer > Video card type (nVidia, Intel, ATI, etc.) > Memory size > Disk size and type > > You can (as root) run "dmidecode" and "lspci" fro

Re: problem: system freezes.

2013-09-10 Thread William Mattison
Good afternoon, Rick Stevens wrote... > Need a lot more info: > > Make and model of computer > Video card type (nVidia, Intel, ATI, etc.) > Memory size > Disk size and type > > You can (as root) run "dmidecode" and "lspci" from the command line > and include that with your response. We can then t

Re: problem: system freezes.

2013-09-09 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/09/2013 01:15 PM, William Mattison wrote: This problem has been occurring for a few weeks now, and was occurring when I had Fedora-18 also. I just now think I have the time to try to handle it. (I'm guessing this will take some doing!) My first thought is that it might be a memory issu

Re: problem: system freezes.

2013-09-09 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/09/2013 01:34 PM, linuxnuts...@videotron.ca issued this missive: On 09/09/2013 04:15 PM, William Mattison wrote: Good afternoon, This is Fedora-19 on a 64 bit quad-core i7; with an Nvidia GEFORCE GTX 660. I most recently updated Fedora last Wednesday, Sept. 04. At least once each day, t

Re: problem: system freezes.

2013-09-09 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/09/2013 01:15 PM, William Mattison issued this missive: Good afternoon, This is Fedora-19 on a 64 bit quad-core i7; with an Nvidia GEFORCE GTX 660. I most recently updated Fedora last Wednesday, Sept. 04. At least once each day, the system just locks up with no advanced warning or sympto

Re: problem: system freezes.

2013-09-09 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/09/2013 01:28 PM, Rick Stevens issued this missive: On 09/09/2013 01:15 PM, William Mattison issued this missive: Good afternoon, This is Fedora-19 on a 64 bit quad-core i7; with an Nvidia GEFORCE GTX 660. I most recently updated Fedora last Wednesday, Sept. 04. At least once each day,

Re: problem: system freezes.

2013-09-09 Thread linuxnutster
On 09/09/2013 04:15 PM, William Mattison wrote: Good afternoon, This is Fedora-19 on a 64 bit quad-core i7; with an Nvidia GEFORCE GTX 660. I most recently updated Fedora last Wednesday, Sept. 04. At least once each day, the system just locks up with no advanced warning or symptoms. It just s

problem: system freezes.

2013-09-09 Thread William Mattison
Good afternoon, This is Fedora-19 on a 64 bit quad-core i7; with an Nvidia GEFORCE GTX 660.  I most recently updated Fedora last Wednesday, Sept. 04. At least once each day, the system just locks up with no advanced warning or symptoms.  It just stops responding to the trackball and keystrokes.