On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 04:59:21PM -0500, Russ Cook wrote: > I have an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard with AMD Athlon 4800 dual > core cpu, with 4 MB of Corsair TwinX ram sticks. I have an older > GeForce4 MX 420 graphics board with 64 MB ram. I have updated my bios > to version 1303, with no impact. I am running kernel > 2.6.8-11-amd64-generic. I have also run the smp kernels, with the same > problem. > > When interacting in X, the system will hang unexpectedly. I can ssh to > the machine from another box, and the command 'top' will show eithe > XFree86 or Xorg (whichever is running) to be using 100 % cpu (when > running smp). > > The machine has never frozen on me when running commands from ssh at > another box. Google search has shown many people having similar > problems with various motherboards. I have run memtest on all my memory > sticks, one at a time, and all together, with no detected faults. > > I also tried loading the nvidia video driver, but no help. > > I have tried the Knoppix 5.0.1 and Kubuntu 6.06 live CDs, and get the > same problem. Is anyone else running this same motherboard without > problems? If you had problems and solved them, can you share your > process?
I've had a similar problem, but it went away when I installed Ubuntu. Whatever they've done right, I hope it propagates to Debian soon. By the way, I had the same problem whether in 32 and 64-bit more, and whether I used the vesa, nv, or nvidia drivers. > > Does Nvidia offer drivers for the NForce4 motherboard chipset, and if > so, does it make any difference? I plan to upgrade my video board, but > I want to get a stable system first, before putting more $ into it. > Could the older video board be part of the problem? > > Any help most gratefully accepted. > > Thanks, > Russ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]