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Sep 6, 2004, 10:35 AM
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On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 05:10:41 +0200 Olivier Mathiasin <oliv [at] mathiasin> wrote: > Mark Kamichoff wrote: > > >>Symptoms include frozen display, or it won't wake up on key presses > >if >the monitors are in standby. No response from keyboard or mouse, > >and I >can't change to the console. I can however SSH in from another > >PC, see X >consuming 99% of the CPU cycles and kill it (only with > >signal 9 though). >Then GDM restarts and I can log back in and > >everything is fine...> > >> > > > >I've encountered the same problem, every couple of days. However, it > >only seems to manifest itself when I'm using the Xvideo extension, > >when using Xine or MPlayer. After X locks up, the audio track from > >the movie/clip keeps playing, which was pretty creepy, the first time > >it happened. > > > >This has been happening for awhile, through NVidia's 5xxx and 6xxx > >drivers. I believe it only started happening since I switched to DVI > >output on my video card. That still sounds like an NVidia problem, > >right? Just tried this and as I started qtorrent I just got another lockup. :-( Still no solution for me. Two things I've notice that lock up my system are torrent based programs or running heavy network such as ftp. I've also had lock-ups with no X running. I'm baffled. -- bruce -- bruce
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