The 02.10.20 at 20:36, Doug Glenn wrote:
I have looked through the previous threads regarding lockups with a series of suggestions. I have disabled ACPI, but I see APM is still active within X by the log.
You may also disable apm. What about apic?
Most often if I enable the Nvidia driver, the caps lock and scroll lock screens will start flashing and it locks up. Currently it is running the "nv" X driver instead. It still locks up, only differing in that it does not display the flashing keyboard.
Same simptoms here, using suse 7.3. I haven't tried to use the nv driver. I suspect problems in the kernel memory manager, because I saw once or twice the error log saying something about kswap crashing.
I have disabled APCI via the kernal parms on boot and disableapic as well.
Suposedly acpi and apic together work better :-?
This is on an Athlon 1800 using the supplied Suse kernel.
Mine is a pentium IV
I have not had any lockups outside of X. But I have lost count of the number had while running X.
I have seen most when login off kde or the system; specially when switching to a console just after logging of kde and before the login screen appears again (ie, while the server is resetting). I have to use gdm as login manager instead of kdm, seems more stable.
I did notice that Nvidia does not support APM in their card. So poking through the XFree86 site, I found I can disable it via xset -dpms.
Yes, I remember that. But I have been able to set the system to sleep from inside X, with "apm --standby" (if the binary is suid).
Any luck from others using NVidia cards? This problem does not appear to be related just to Suse, but with all the new distro releases. A number of RH 8 users in our users group are reporting the same problems.
Nice to know :-) But some other people have reported the same problem using suse 7.3 (with a 2.4.x kernel) and don't have an nvidia card, about half a year ago. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson