Re: kernel 2.6.11-2.6.12 freeze
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 01:53 +0200, v0n0 wrote: Taking out the Option RenderAccel true from the device section in xorg.conf solved it for me. I knew this workaround, but I don't want to lose 3d acceleration! This option doesn't make you use 3d acceleration, you just don't have the X11 render extension accelerated, which means slightly slower screen updates in OpenOffice.org or Firefox (but on an amd64 your not going to notice the difference in speed anyway) -- GPG/PGP signed mail preferred. No HTML mail. No MS Word attachments PGP Key ID 0x4B6E7209 Fingerprint E1FD 9D7E 6BB4 1BD4 AEB9 3091 0027 CEFA 4B6E 7209 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: kernel 2.6.11-2.6.12 freeze
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 26.07.2005 03:38:23, Mark Nipper a écrit : On 25 Jul 2005, Jan Berndt wrote: Are you using powernowd? As for me the nvidia-driver and powernowd won't work together. After removing powernowd everthing works fine (For two days now!). Actually, I experienced freezes with AMD64 using any frequency scaling in the kernel. I was using cpufreqd, but even without a userland daemon and just toggling things myself via echo, I could get my system to lock up. I was testing things using 32-bit mplayer in a chroot to play a Real Audio stream. As soon as I took out all frequency scaling of my kernel, the system was rock solid. This was all done from a console without loading my nVidia module and no X running, so I can say with a decent amount of certainty that there may be problems in general with frequency scaling and AMD64 kernels. It depends of the meaning you attach to there may be ... I'm using frequency scaling with powernowd without any problem on an Asus A8V Deluxe and an athlon64 1500+. Frequencies are 1, 1.8, 2 and 2.2GHz. -- Mark Nippere- Jean-Luc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC5hbRXit3lz9m7V4RAvobAJ9XZhmPCFfaCs9x9FNn1Evqsl+W/wCfX7nf 11j3DiSGo4DHcnMtb+GGTIQ= =NXMD -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: kernel 2.6.11-2.6.12 freeze
Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 26.07.2005 03:38:23, Mark Nipper a écrit : On 25 Jul 2005, Jan Berndt wrote: Are you using powernowd? As for me the nvidia-driver and powernowd won't work together. After removing powernowd everthing works fine (For two days now!). I'd like to point out that I have had no such difficulties - cpufreq-userspace.ko, powernow-k8.ko, nvidia.ko, powernowd and nvidia-glx all play together in perfect harmony on my machine (Soltek K890Pro-939 board, Venice-core CPU, PCI-e Geforce 6800GT). I don't think there is a general case of powernow disliking Nvidia. --Jo Shields -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel 2.6.11-2.6.12 freeze
Mark Nipper ha scritto: I'm using 7667 from experimental currently with no problems. I didn't manage to make this work: I compiled and installed it, but when I do modprobe nvidia it loads a kernel module version 7174, but X module is 7667 (???). X doesn't start that way. I'm now using 7667 from nvidia installer, but with no success with 2.6.12 kernel, as it freezes after about 30 secs since I login in KDE... -- Alessandro Dal Grande Student In The University Of Padua - Computer Science Linux Registered User #359258 System: GNU/Linux Debian Sid Pure64 on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chat: Psi (ICQ)150487234 (Jabber)[EMAIL PROTECTED] Put the fan back into computing signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: kernel 2.6.11-2.6.12 freeze
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 08:16:32PM +0200, v0n0 wrote: I didn't manage to make this work: I compiled and installed it, but when I do modprobe nvidia it loads a kernel module version 7174, but X module is 7667 (???). X doesn't start that way. I'm now using 7667 from nvidia installer, but with no success with 2.6.12 kernel, as it freezes after about 30 secs since I login in KDE... You did reextract and rebuild the module after installing the new nvidia-kernel-source package right? dpkg -l nvidia-kernel\* Make sure the version is the new one. And of course make sure you actually built it for the current running kernel and not a different version. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel 2.6.11-2.6.12 freeze
Lennart Sorensen ha scritto: You did reextract and rebuild the module after installing the new nvidia-kernel-source package right? dpkg -l nvidia-kernel\* Make sure the version is the new one. I'm pretty sure of this, before launching debian/rules binary_modules I checked in nvidia-kernel dir to see which version was it, and inside a script I read 7667! And of course make sure you actually built it for the current running kernel and not a different version. Sure of this, since name of the new deb was taken even from uname -r. However, thanks for help! -- Alessandro Dal Grande Student In The University Of Padua - Computer Science Linux Registered User #359258 System: GNU/Linux Debian Sid Pure64 on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chat: Psi (ICQ)150487234 (Jabber)[EMAIL PROTECTED] Put the fan back into computing signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: kernel 2.6.11-2.6.12 freeze
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 08:31:21PM +0200, v0n0 wrote: Sure of this, since name of the new deb was taken even from uname -r. However, thanks for help! Oh remember to stop X, modprobe -r nvidia, modprobe nvidia, start X Otherwise you will still have the old module loaded (well unless you rebooted that is). Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel 2.6.11-2.6.12 freeze
Lennart Sorensen ha scritto: Oh remember to stop X, modprobe -r nvidia, modprobe nvidia, start X Otherwise you will still have the old module loaded (well unless you rebooted that is). I did this, I was in init 2! However, 7667 doesn't fix my problem with X...I hope Nvidia is working on this... -- Alessandro Dal Grande Student In The University Of Padua - Computer Science Linux Registered User #359258 System: GNU/Linux Debian Sid Pure64 on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chat: Psi (ICQ)150487234 (Jabber)[EMAIL PROTECTED] Put the fan back into computing signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: kernel 2.6.11-2.6.12 freeze
v0n0 wrote: Lennart Sorensen ha scritto: Oh remember to stop X, modprobe -r nvidia, modprobe nvidia, start X Otherwise you will still have the old module loaded (well unless you rebooted that is). I did this, I was in init 2! However, 7667 doesn't fix my problem with X...I hope Nvidia is working on this... Debian doesn't use a set runlevel for non-xfree86 use. g/k/s/w/xdm are all loaded in runlevel 2 if installed, by default. --Jo Shields -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel 2.6.11-2.6.12 freeze
Are you using powernowd? As for me the nvidia-driver and powernowd won't work together. After removing powernowd everthing works fine (For two days now!). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel 2.6.11-2.6.12 freeze
Jan Berndt ha scritto: Are you using powernowd? As for me the nvidia-driver and powernowd won't work together. After removing powernowd everthing works fine (For two days now!). No, I'm not using powernod. -- Alessandro Dal Grande Student In The University Of Padua - Computer Science Linux Registered User #359258 System: GNU/Linux Debian Sid Pure64 on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chat: Psi (ICQ)150487234 (Jabber)[EMAIL PROTECTED] Put the fan back into computing signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: kernel 2.6.11-2.6.12 freeze
Brian McErlean ha scritto: I've had similar freezes to this both on ubuntu and debian with x.org and nvidia drivers. The only way to break out was to ssh in from another machine and kill Xorg (which was eating 100% cpu) Taking out the Option RenderAccel true from the device section in xorg.conf solved it for me. I knew this workaround, but I don't want to lose 3d acceleration! -- Alessandro Dal Grande Student In The University Of Padua - Computer Science Linux Registered User #359258 System: GNU/Linux Debian Sid Pure64 on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chat: Psi (ICQ)150487234 (Jabber)[EMAIL PROTECTED] Put the fan back into computing signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: kernel 2.6.11-2.6.12 freeze
On 25 Jul 2005, Jan Berndt wrote: Are you using powernowd? As for me the nvidia-driver and powernowd won't work together. After removing powernowd everthing works fine (For two days now!). Actually, I experienced freezes with AMD64 using any frequency scaling in the kernel. I was using cpufreqd, but even without a userland daemon and just toggling things myself via echo, I could get my system to lock up. I was testing things using 32-bit mplayer in a chroot to play a Real Audio stream. As soon as I took out all frequency scaling of my kernel, the system was rock solid. This was all done from a console without loading my nVidia module and no X running, so I can say with a decent amount of certainty that there may be problems in general with frequency scaling and AMD64 kernels. -- Mark Nippere-contacts: 4475 Carter Creek Parkway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apartment 724 http://nipsy.bitgnome.net/ Bryan, Texas, 77802-4481 AIM/Yahoo: texasnipsy ICQ: 66971617 (979)575-3193 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GG/IT d- s++:+ a- C++$ UBL$ P---+++ L+++$ !E--- W++(--) N+ o K++ w(---) O++ M V(--) PS+++(+) PE(--) Y+ PGP t+ 5 X R tv b+++@ DI+(++) D+ G e h r++ y+(**) --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- ---begin random quote of the moment--- Zack, living in truth feels good. And it sticks in your memory. Like, it's a truism with acid heads that you can never truly remember what tripping feels like. You think you do, but every time you trip it's like waking up all over again, you recognize the head coming on and you dig that your memories of it were shadows. -- Wesley George, the last great dope wizard from Spider Robinson's Satan's Children, 1979 (appearing in _By Any Other Name_, 2001) end random quote of the moment -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel 2.6.11-2.6.12 freeze
I experience a freeze a few minutes after I login in my profile in KDE...now I use Xorg, KDE 3.4.1 and kernel 2.6.12 but was the same with Xfree, KDE 3.3.2 and kernel 2.6.11. After that I can only move cursor, but the screen is unusable and keys don't work. I'm using proprietary Nvidia drivers(1.0.7174-3). The strage thing is that this doesn't occur with 2.6.8. Please help me to make work 2.6.12, it's full of new features I need! (for example: my touchpad works without any addition) -- Alessandro Dal Grande Student In The University Of Padua - Computer Science Linux Registered User #359258 System: GNU/Linux Debian Sid Pure64 on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernel: 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 Mail: Thunderbird Chat: Kopete (ICQ) 150487234 Put the fan back into computing signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: kernel 2.6.11-2.6.12 freeze
v0n0 ha scritto: I experience a freeze a few minutes after I login in my profile in KDE...now I use Xorg, KDE 3.4.1 and kernel 2.6.12 but was the same with Xfree, KDE 3.3.2 and kernel 2.6.11. After that I can only move cursor, but the screen is unusable and keys don't work. I'm using proprietary Nvidia drivers(1.0.7174-3). The strage thing is that this doesn't occur with 2.6.8. Please help me to make work 2.6.12, it's full of new features I need! (for example: my touchpad works without any addition) Oh, it seems that is related to nvidia drivers...they haven't solved the problem yet...anyway, when will amd64 become part of Debian? Shall we do a petition or something else to accelerate the process? -- Alessandro Dal Grande Student In The University Of Padua - Computer Science Linux Registered User #359258 System: GNU/Linux Debian Sid Pure64 on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chat: Psi (ICQ)150487234 (Jabber)[EMAIL PROTECTED] Put the fan back into computing signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: kernel 2.6.11-2.6.12 freeze
Il Sat, 23 Jul 2005 13:59:04 +0200 v0n0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] scrisse: problem yet...anyway, when will amd64 become part of Debian? Shall we do a petition or something else to accelerate the process? install package, try it, if not work report bug or patch it, this is the right way :) -- Sythos - http://www.sythos.net () ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against html/rtf/vCard in mail /\- against M$ attachments Non puo` crashare ancora. -- cena linuxmeeting 2002 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel 2.6.11-2.6.12 freeze
Am Samstag, 23. Juli 2005 13:08 schrieb v0n0: I'm using proprietary Nvidia drivers(1.0.7174-3). I use version 1.0-7664 here and it works for me. -- Greetings / Gruss Andreas Richter http://www.oszine.de GPG-KeyID 0x7BA12DD9 Fingerprint D2E9 202B F4F0 EB16 25DE 5FF7 0CF2 3C57 7BA1 2DD9 pgpAlSoAoPw1w.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: kernel 2.6.11-2.6.12 freeze
Andreas Richter ha scritto: Am Samstag, 23. Juli 2005 13:08 schrieb v0n0: I'm using proprietary Nvidia drivers(1.0.7174-3). I use version 1.0-7664 here and it works for me. Are you using nvidia installer? -- Alessandro Dal Grande Student In The University Of Padua - Computer Science Linux Registered User #359258 System: GNU/Linux Debian Sid Pure64 on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chat: Psi (ICQ)150487234 (Jabber)[EMAIL PROTECTED] Put the fan back into computing signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: kernel 2.6.11-2.6.12 freeze
Am Samstag, 23. Juli 2005 19:08 schrieb v0n0: Are you using nvidia installer? Yes. -- Greetings / Gruss Andreas Richter http://www.oszine.de GPG-KeyID 0x7BA12DD9 Fingerprint D2E9 202B F4F0 EB16 25DE 5FF7 0CF2 3C57 7BA1 2DD9 pgpq5onKwfbX2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: kernel 2.6.11-2.6.12 freeze
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 13:08:38 +0200 v0n0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I experience a freeze a few minutes after I login in my profile in KDE...now I use Xorg, KDE 3.4.1 and kernel 2.6.12 I've had similar freezes to this both on ubuntu and debian with x.org and nvidia drivers. The only way to break out was to ssh in from another machine and kill Xorg (which was eating 100% cpu) Taking out the Option RenderAccel true from the device section in xorg.conf solved it for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
