On Thu, December 7, 2006 1:38 pm, Gus Wirth wrote: > 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. > [snip] > > 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
Hmm ... my Toshiba laptop freezes to power-down sometimes in Gnome, never at the command line. I blamed Gnome, but this sounda like it would have happened under KDE as soom as I hit high CPU load. However, when it happens to me, I can't even ping the thing, so maybe I have a different problem. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
