my first suggestion is to make sure that you have the correct chipset
and drivers installed for video video card, being the correct kernel
module for the chipset and the correct driver via emerge.
On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 19:23 +0000, Peng wrote:
> On 01/15/05 23:23, Douglas James Dunn wrote:
> > First all I can say is I hardly ever have it freeze on me unless I have
> > agp or my video drivers or something missing or configured incorrectly.
> > I'm not sure if I understand what your are saying here. Can you or cant
> > you change to a different console.
> >
> > In theory if you log in and startx in your first console you can switch
> > back with ctrl-alt-f1 and do a ctrl + c which will basically kill the X
> > server. Personally I've seen X server freeze like that before, and
> > being unable to input from the keyboard, which i would guess somehow
> > caused the keyboard drivers used in X to fail.
> >
> > But with the mouse still able to work and display the video still works
> > though X has definitely frozen. It's sounds like quite a complicated
> > freeze. If I was you I would try to figure out why it freezes fairly
> > often. when for me personally on a 2.6.10 kernel it never freezes when
> > properly set up. I can't really say whats wrong or not without some
> > more information or some basic troubleshooting on your end.
> >
> > If I was you I wouldn't be worrying about how to kill it but rather what
> > is causing it to hang.
>
> Incorrect configuration is quite common on this little system, so I
> wouldn't be surprised if it's the case...
>
> I can't change to a different console or do anything with the keyboard.
> Actually, I haven't tried to switch to the first console where X was
> started... That may work, but I doubt it.
>
> All I can say about it is that it almost always freezes within twenty or
> thirty seconds when I open a Konsole (especially if I scroll up in it),
> and that it only froze once in the last day with only GKrellM, X-Chat,
> Thunderbird, and Firefox running (and the occasional Konqueror to browse
> the files on the computer with its pretty GUI or NEdit).
>
> Since I should have included some details, I'm using version 6.8.0-r3 of
> the X.org X server or whatever it's called, and the keyword-masked
> 1.0.6629-r1 nVidia drivers (would use the not-keyword-masked version,
> but it refused to work). Both were installed through Portage. Kernel is
> 2.6.9-gentoo-r9. Obviously, I'm using an nVidia graphics card.
>
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