Gus Wirth wrote:
I've been having problems with the proprietary NVIDIA X drivers causing
X to lock up, causing about 100% CPU load as determined by top. It also
causes the keyboard to lock up, forcing me to reboot the system. The
system remains functional for other things; for example I can ssh into
the box (that's how I get it to reboot). Other programs started in X
continue to run.
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I should have done some more research first. This is apparently a huge
problem for lots of people that has been going on for a least two years
now. Searching the net shows some possible solutions:
Turn off APIC in the BIOS and/or as a kernel option noapic.
Turn off acpi using the kernel option acpi=off
Disable GLX in the xorg.conf file
Disable RenderAccel in the xorg.conf file
From the NVIDIA README file that comes with their installer:
Q. My kernel log contains messages that are prefixed with "Xid"; what do
these messages mean?
A. "Xid" messages indicate that a general GPU error occurred, most often
due to the driver misprogramming the GPU or to corruption of the
commands sent to the GPU. These messages provide diagnostic information
that can be used by NVIDIA to aid in debugging reported problems.
Gus
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