Am Sonntag, 12. Oktober 2008 schrieb Erik Hahn: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:08:57AM +0200, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > > Since I'm using the box as desktop, I have only a frozen X-server and > > no possibility to switch to console (maybe there's some hint whats > > happened?). > > > > How do I find out what happened, why it crashed? Modern systems have > > MCE-logs, but how do I read it in this case? After reboot, all > > information seems to be gone since mcelog is always empty. > > Alex > > If it's a kernel panic you actually get debugging information on the > console. It's just hidden "behind" the X server. Maybe you can reproduce > the problem working without X (If you can do your work purely from the > VTs)
I've tried, but unfortunately, the X-Driver on my laptop (i965) does also seem to have stability problems, after ca an hour it froze using 100% cpu-time, unable to kill (nither kill or kill -9 did work). I guess it didn't wakeup from DPMS :-( > > Do you use any proprietary drivers? > On the desktop I have nvidia-card with prop. driver. Alex