On Monday 13 Dec 2004 19:48, Stan Glasoe wrote:
On Monday 13 December 2004 1:27 pm, Hans Neukomm wrote:
hi all
since late suse 9.1 and now on suse 9.2 i have repeated apps freeze up for apps like
Mozilla, firefox and thunderbird mail editor ( every session !! ) to lesser degree evolution mail editor
on my Acer TravelMate 6003LCi always current YOU update the problem started about 6-8 weeks ago and was NEVER encountered on suse early 9.0 or any other version before
new USB mouse or other USB hardware such as my wacom tablet intuos2
Try running without any USB devices plugged in. If it doesn't lock up in email or browser then we have a clue.
if i connect new a.m. hardware the pop up appears "new hardware discovered" do you want to configure ... when i click YES -- i get an instant X-server crash each time for both a.m. HW
since it never occurred before ... could it be that it is caused by the new suse used xorg instead of the previous xfree86 ?
Doubtful. Stick with xorg. More likely there is a video card driver issue.
what about changing from xorg back to xfree86 ??
No. Don't bother. xorg seems to have better drivers and support.
any experience and if YES which packages need to be exchanged ?
Google search so far has no results
the problem with apps freeze up occurs permanently - MANY times a day sometimes after a few URLs of browsing after minutes soemtimes it takes as much as 10 or more minutes - again and again sometimes even without activity - just after a break of several minutes
This usually points to a driver conflict. Most often video since your other clues point in that direction also.
hans
Stay with xorg. Double check your video driver configuration. Run without any external USB devices attached. Your symptoms point to a driver conflict somewhere. Or you may have bad hardware. When you have a lockup can you do anyting like a Ctrl+Alt+F10 to see if there are any error messages?
Stan
Not a solution but perhaps some more inform that might help to diagnose the problem. I get an x-server "crash" every time I attempt to use gtk-gnutella. By going on to another machine, I can ssh into the "crashed" machine and when I run top, I discover that X is using excess of 99.5% of the cpu. I've also discovered that I can keep X from going haywire by running xine, even if I'm not watching anything. I've seen similar behaviour on both of my machines. On the "crashed" machine there is no keyboard response so can't do Ctrl+Alt+F10 or anything else. I can kill the process from the remote machine using kill -3. This returns me to the login screen and everything is back to normal for a while. I'm assuming this is related to the above problem and hoping that the extra info helps in some way. Eddie