Re: X: display refreshing just stops
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes: On 2010-03-30 00:21, Perttu Muurimäki wrote: Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes: On 2010-03-27 12:57, Perttu Muurimäki wrote: Hi again, Problem: Screen freezes until I touch any key or move the mouse. When does the freeze *start*? Sometimes when I'm not typing or moving the mouse. Once per 5 minutes perhaps. Usually when something else is going on - for example typing url and waiting for the browser to render the page just to realize that it has done so several seconds ago but display doesn't show it. Sometimes in the middle of window managers menu creation. I can see the whole menu area but it contains only half of the entries. For minutes I can just stare at Gkrellm and see the clock (and everything else) not doing anything. Everything on screen has stopped at whatever they were doing at the moment it freezed. However, in the background everything works (so the machine itself is alright) since the second I touch 'shift' -key the display comes back alive and I see things - that were running when display freezed - finished. This happens every few minutes. I am developing a shift -hitting habit :| I'm not sure whether kernel or X is the culprit. Graphics chip is intel 845g and the X-driver is xserver-xorg-video-intel. Kernel is linux-image-2.6-amd64 2.6.32 and I've tried with kernel mode setting and without. My first guess is xserver-xorg-video-intel, but I've been wrong before. This time You were right :) I found an oldish nvidia card in our stuff room and with that (and xserver-xorg-video-nv) everything seems to work flawlessly. Now that the culprit is known I can file a decent bug report against it. Thank You. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Can you ssh in from a different machine while it's frozen? YES! In fact I've tested this by going two floors down to server room, login there, ssh from there to my workstation, find that everything works and then come back. Nothing on the screen has changed! When that happens again, I'd run back down to the server room, ssh in and tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log and ~/.xsession-errors. -- History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. Dwight Eisenhower -- -- Perttu Muurimäki perttu.muurim...@iki.fi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87iq8cb7y6@elisanet.fi
Re: X: display refreshing just stops
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes: On 2010-03-27 12:57, Perttu Muurimäki wrote: Hi again, Problem: Screen freezes until I touch any key or move the mouse. When does the freeze *start*? Sometimes when I'm not typing or moving the mouse. Once per 5 minutes perhaps. Usually when something else is going on - for example typing url and waiting for the browser to render the page just to realize that it has done so several seconds ago but display doesn't show it. Sometimes in the middle of window managers menu creation. I can see the whole menu area but it contains only half of the entries. For minutes I can just stare at Gkrellm and see the clock (and everything else) not doing anything. Everything on screen has stopped at whatever they were doing at the moment it freezed. However, in the background everything works (so the machine itself is alright) since the second I touch 'shift' -key the display comes back alive and I see things - that were running when display freezed - finished. This happens every few minutes. I am developing a shift -hitting habit :| I'm not sure whether kernel or X is the culprit. Graphics chip is intel 845g and the X-driver is xserver-xorg-video-intel. Kernel is linux-image-2.6-amd64 2.6.32 and I've tried with kernel mode setting and without. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Can you ssh in from a different machine while it's frozen? YES! In fact I've tested this by going two floors down to server room, login there, ssh from there to my workstation, find that everything works and then come back. Nothing on the screen has changed! -- History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. Dwight Eisenhower -- -- Perttu Muurimäki perttu.muurim...@iki.fi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877hou2xm8@elisanet.fi
Re: X: display refreshing just stops
On 2010-03-30 00:21, Perttu Muurimäki wrote: Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes: On 2010-03-27 12:57, Perttu Muurimäki wrote: Hi again, Problem: Screen freezes until I touch any key or move the mouse. When does the freeze *start*? Sometimes when I'm not typing or moving the mouse. Once per 5 minutes perhaps. Usually when something else is going on - for example typing url and waiting for the browser to render the page just to realize that it has done so several seconds ago but display doesn't show it. Sometimes in the middle of window managers menu creation. I can see the whole menu area but it contains only half of the entries. For minutes I can just stare at Gkrellm and see the clock (and everything else) not doing anything. Everything on screen has stopped at whatever they were doing at the moment it freezed. However, in the background everything works (so the machine itself is alright) since the second I touch 'shift' -key the display comes back alive and I see things - that were running when display freezed - finished. This happens every few minutes. I am developing a shift -hitting habit :| I'm not sure whether kernel or X is the culprit. Graphics chip is intel 845g and the X-driver is xserver-xorg-video-intel. Kernel is linux-image-2.6-amd64 2.6.32 and I've tried with kernel mode setting and without. My first guess is xserver-xorg-video-intel, but I've been wrong before. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Can you ssh in from a different machine while it's frozen? YES! In fact I've tested this by going two floors down to server room, login there, ssh from there to my workstation, find that everything works and then come back. Nothing on the screen has changed! When that happens again, I'd run back down to the server room, ssh in and tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log and ~/.xsession-errors. -- History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. Dwight Eisenhower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bb18fd3.9070...@cox.net
X: display refreshing just stops
Hi again, Problem: Screen freezes until I touch any key or move the mouse. For minutes I can just stare at Gkrellm and see the clock (and everything else) not doing anything. Everything on screen has stopped at whatever they were doing at the moment it freezed. However, in the background everything works (so the machine itself is alright) since the second I touch 'shift' -key the display comes back alive and I see things - that were running when display freezed - finished. This happens every few minutes. I am developing a shift -hitting habit :| I'm not sure whether kernel or X is the culprit. Graphics chip is intel 845g and the X-driver is xserver-xorg-video-intel. Kernel is linux-image-2.6-amd64 2.6.32 and I've tried with kernel mode setting and without. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. -- Perttu Muurimäki perttu.muurim...@iki.fi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pr2py7eg@elisanet.fi
Re: X: display refreshing just stops
On 2010-03-27 12:57, Perttu Muurimäki wrote: Hi again, Problem: Screen freezes until I touch any key or move the mouse. When does the freeze *start*? For minutes I can just stare at Gkrellm and see the clock (and everything else) not doing anything. Everything on screen has stopped at whatever they were doing at the moment it freezed. However, in the background everything works (so the machine itself is alright) since the second I touch 'shift' -key the display comes back alive and I see things - that were running when display freezed - finished. This happens every few minutes. I am developing a shift -hitting habit :| I'm not sure whether kernel or X is the culprit. Graphics chip is intel 845g and the X-driver is xserver-xorg-video-intel. Kernel is linux-image-2.6-amd64 2.6.32 and I've tried with kernel mode setting and without. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Can you ssh in from a different machine while it's frozen? -- History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. Dwight Eisenhower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bae65b4.5080...@cox.net
