From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QeCSB-0001ar-B7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:42:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54B8921C02A; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 20:41:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2016121C02A for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 20:41:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyg8 with SMTP id 8so3128924gyg.40 for ; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:41:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=zLM1d8ALwZPaUKGDJMHdhgoNo1dWeR5hoOa+1c61U5U=; b=oS67tuYEPFS++OY7ABVH9UZiChgOCi6wWQ9jLS6qZ4QEqREKKVd5GDudfeFCzr8THQ OOrxjRRFce8bD0r4ypjasiSMluaBPjdGudxW/bZdAV3+Yu4BFt/um/pNGLj6aL2qfIxA 553HGisCMHgNv7FshshCKrfbe6E22iOOjsd+s= Received: by 10.236.181.163 with SMTP id l23mr9353653yhm.206.1309898475651; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:41:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-129-33.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.129.33]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v25sm1635051yhk.50.2011.07.05.13.41.14 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:41:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E1376E9.6010103@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:41:13 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110705 Gentoo/2.0.14-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups. References: <4E11EEF3.70804@gmail.com> <1402354.G0EMuDhieW@nazgul> <4E122A95.7060707@gmail.com> <4E1364B6.3090405@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: c43c72fa42b2b9eb11245d0c40d9574d Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Dale wrote: > >> >> Well, I got rid of openldap. It runs longer but still crashes so I am back >> to Fluxbox again, which works fine. I also started with a fresh .kde4 >> directory. That seemed to help more than anything else. It lasted a LOT >> longer after that. I don't know if it was a coincidence or what but it did >> lock up once when I logged into Konsole as root. >> >> I started a emerge -e world this time. This thing has 4 cores so it won't >> take to long. Any ideas on what else I can try? If this emerge doesn't >> help, it has to be a config file somewhere. >> >> Again, I'm pretty sure it is not hardware. It runs fine when compiling in a >> console and I have run from systemrescue stick as well. Hardware seems to >> work fine. >> >> Ideas? >> > It's a long shot, but since you're using nvidia, I had random lockups. > It turned out to be due to faulty handling of the on-by-default > aggressive power savings mode of my Nvidia card. It was solved by > placing this undocumented incantation, pieced together from various > Google searches, in my xorg.conf device section for my video card: > > Section "Device" > Identifier "nVidia GT 240" > Driver "nvidia" > Option "RegistryDWords" "PowerMizerEnable=0x1; > PerfLevelSrc=0x3322; PowerMizerDefault=0x1; PowerMizerDefaultAC=0x1" > EndSection > > After that, everything works wonderfully. > > You can also use nvidia-settings to change the power saving mode at > run-time, but it does not save it and you must do it every time you > log into X, which is annoying. The xorg.conf method above requires no > further action. > > Your card may not even support PowerMizer, who knows? I thought I'd > mention it just in case. > > I haven't updated the drivers in a while. Would something like that just up and change even with no upgrade? I ask because I don't honestly know the answer. Also, would it not cause problems in Fluxbox as well? I played video in Fluxbox last night and it never missed a beat. I use smplayer to play videos just like I do in KDE. This is what sort of confuses me. KDE was locking up usually in less than a minute after logging in. After getting rid of openldap, it did the same. After renaming my .kde4 directory, it lasted several minutes before locking up. During one lockup, I even got the SysReq key to work and could reboot. The last time was a HARD lock up complete with the flashing lights on my keyboard. If this still locks up after emerge -e world and a reboot, I'm not sure what to do next. That should eliminate a corrupt file. Renaming .kde4 fixed KDE config problems so that doesn't leave much. I'm going to log into my test user and see what if anything it does. I'm not going to do any tinkering with settings, just the default stuff. I'll post back later what it does. Dale :-) :-)