Re: [gentoo-dev] System hangup w/ X taking 100% cpu

[Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org>]

On Thursday 13 December 2001 21:38, you wrote:
>
> Hi Dan
>
> What version kernel, nvidia driver and filesystem are you
> running?
I have kernel 2.4.16 w/ the std patches from portage, nvidia 2314 and 
reiserfs.

>
> I updated my nvidia drivers to the latest 2313, and only had
> problems (screen corruption, lockups, etc) on a system that
> had been running stable for a long time now. i went back to
> the previous version, and it is 100% again.  I also had problems with my
> old savage and sertain drivers.
>
> Then, nearly a year back, I had the same type of problems
> (lockups), but this was due to bad ram, and a kernel/reiserfs
> and hardware compat problem.
Things now seem to have stablizied somewhat after I turned on a 1024x768x16M 
vesa framebuffer for the console. Now it only hangs like that when I press 
Fn+F5, the hotkey for switching between the builtin and external screeens. 
Still I wouldn't call it completely stable.

But I've just found out another possible cause; I compiled agpgart into the 
kernel instead of as a module, and now I can't use NVAGP althuogh I want to. 
So I'll switch that and see if it helps.

-- 

Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel