On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:32:45AM -0600, Mike Reinehr wrote: > On Tuesday 31 October 2006 00:33, Jan De Luyck wrote: > > On Monday 30 October 2006 23:03, Jean-Michel Pour? wrote: > > > Dear Friends, > > > > > > I recently bought an AMD64x2 dual-core desktop. > > > > > > The system is running Debian AMD64 SID. > > > Unfortunately, I experience system freezes. > > > > I'm seeing this too, not on my AMD64 box, but on my Intel Pentium M laptop > > (Dell D610). > > > > I get semi-random freezes, only when in X. Hardware is OK. No binary-only > > drivers are being used. > > > > Jan > > I started following this thread simply out of curiosity as my AMD64 systems > all are servers w/o X and are running just fine. Then, I became more > interested as I realized that the symptoms were sounding familiar to what > I've been experiencing with my 32-bit desktop. I'm still running an aging > PIII desktop & Matrox video, but with up to date, 32-bit Etch. Initially I > was sure that my problem just was caused by aging hardware and placed an > order for a new system, but now I'm not so sure. > > In my case, my system freezes only when I attempt to do a <Ctrl>-<Alt>-<Fx> > to > switch to an alternate console session. It doesn't happen 100% of the time, > but enough that I've quit doing so. When it freezes, there is no response > what so ever from the keyboard or mouse. The screen either is blank or > displaying a "noise" pattern, and I can not ssh in from another system. After > a power off/on reboot everything works fine and there are no error messages > in the logs. > > Gradually, I'm coming to the conclusion that the problem is with xorg or, > perhaps, an xorg/kernel combination.
I used to have this problem on my 32-bit Athlon system. It's a real nuisance in etch, so most of the time I just run sarge, which does not exhibit the problem. I say used to, because now my etch only boots properly about a quarter of the time. I suspect file system damage from one of the freezes. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
