On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 08:27:42AM -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: > Typically it's the graphics drivers hanging the AGP bus. But you > didn't memtion if you were running xscreensaver. If you're > running xscreensaver, do - > Then, when it hang again, ssh in and killall xscreensaver.
Well, a lockup happened again last night (of course *not* while I was using the computer). Funny thing is, I can ping the locked machine, and it responds as though everything was okay. But I cannot ssh into the computer. ssh does not timeout (like it would if the host were down); after I type "ssh host" and press enter, it just sits there---I let it sit there for about 30 minutes before I got impatient and hard-rebooted the machine. But, FWIW, I am running xscreensaver. > Look in /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card > ... > If you have SBA and Fast Writes on, try turning them > off - /etc/modules.d/nvidia I'm hesitant to try this, only because the lockups are so random. It's been almost two weeks since it last happened; I have a feeling that I could get lucky and it won't happen again forever (or it could happen in the next five minutes). Either way, it's hard to determine the solution when I make a change and then just wait. > For general system testing - not graphics, but it will rule out > other hardware problems, there is - app-benchmarks/stress. > ... > For Gfx issues, I typically, run - x11-misc/rss-glx by launching 3 > ... Yup, I think this ought to be my next step, to see if I can consistently duplicate the problem. <checks the "Really Slick Screensavers" hompage> Wow. Those look awesome! Stress testing that is both productive AND entertaining! > The other useful tool I've found is setiathome. It doesn't do > anythign for Gfx testing, but it does help out in keeping the cpu, > cpu bus, memory bus, and ide/scsi bus active enough to remove > doubts that those might be a problem. I've had setiathome running on this machine since I built it over a year ago, so perhaps that's another indicator that the problem is graphics related. Another side note: I have another computer running on virtuall the same hardware, with which I use the same kernel, etc. X11 does seem to lock up from time to time on this machine, but I can still ssh in and kill/reset processes as needed. Thanks again! Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
