fedora core 2 sore spots
alan
alan at clueserver.org
Mon Jun 7 21:19:49 UTC 2004
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, dsyates wrote:
> alan wrote:
> >>Which problem are you having?
>
> >>The one where xscreensaver sends X into an infinite timer loop or the
> >>one where the machine just locks tight and freezes?
> >>I see the infinite timer loop issue once in a great while on the nv
> >>driver, but never the lockup. With the nvidia driver I get lockups
> >>about once a week.
>
> I'm not sure. I do know that withe the nvidia driver in previous
> releases, the machine would lock up. When I first experienced a problem
> with xscreensaver in fc2, I assumed it was a machine lock up; it may
> have been the other though. What are the symptoms of the infinite timer
> loop problem? Either way, in both cases I have found that selecting
> blank screen only from the xscreensaver preferences allows me to avoid
> the problem altogether. Still a shae though. I don't have this problem
> on my debian boxes (I'm not using nvidia drivers/hardware on those boxes
> either though)
With the timer loop problem, you can ssh into the machine (if you have a
dual proc or time to wait) and strace the X process. With the hang the
machine problem, you cannot ping or do anything but powercycle the box.
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