From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HwaeM-0007oy-Pv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:20:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l589Iw2w020475; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:18:58 GMT Received: from windmuehlgasse.getdesigned.at (chello062178000135.1.11.univie.teleweb.at [62.178.0.135]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l589Iu2V020467 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:18:57 GMT Received: (qmail 732 invoked from network); 8 Jun 2007 11:27:56 -0000 Received: from watson64.local (HELO ?192.168.1.5?) (wasti@192.168.1.5) by tuxserver.local with ESMTPA; 8 Jun 2007 11:27:56 -0000 Message-ID: <46691F0C.3060703@getdesigned.at> Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:19:08 +0200 From: Sebastian Redl User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070320) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] System crashes when idle [SOLUTION(?)] References: <465BCF5E.8020109@isis-papyrus.com> <4668F88F.5000102@isis-papyrus.com> In-Reply-To: <4668F88F.5000102@isis-papyrus.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.3.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e4880d0b-6118-4d13-8285-5cd5f4a96cc5 X-Archives-Hash: 1ce3056332c9ad84449ca34e2265d895 Michael Ulm wrote: > I installed Ubuntu on a second disk and it didn't crash. After a lengthy > process of comparing setups, I think I found the problem. > > In xorg.conf, in the monitor section, I was missing the line > Options="DPMS" > > I'll still have to research how leaving out this option could lead to > crashes, so I appreciate any insight this group may give. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_Display_Power_Management_Signaling Since practically every monitor supports this, and since it's practically always enabled, it may be that other code paths of X.org are insufficiently tested, causing the server to crash when it wants to put the monitor into a power saver mode. That's my best guess. Sebastian Redl -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list