X freezes up...

Sat Oct 22 05:22:50 PDT 2005

thanks to people here for the assistance on and off the list...

setting
Options "NoAccel"
stopped X from freezing...

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 01:01:04 +1000, albi <albi at scii.nl> wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:51:05 +1000
> "Gabrielle Harrison & Paul van den Bergen" <gabpaul at popa.melbpc.org.au>
> wrote:
>
>> been trying to set up a FreeBSD box...
>> for any of...
>>
>> FreeBSD 5.3 or 5.4 in conjunction with X and either gnome or KDE
>>
>> or Linux (UBUNTU) in conjunction with X and gnome
>>
>> at some point or other (usually during, shortly after loading, or  
>> within a
>> few minutes of loading) has a meltdown causing total
>> system shutout...
>>
>> my best guess atm is the NVidia onboard graphics is giving me attitude.
>
> what about faulty RAM ? did you test the RAM-memory ?
> http://www.memtest86.com/
>
> do the logfiles show signal 11 messages ?
>
> have you tried booting without APIC ? (in ubuntu try "noapic nolapic" as
> kernel-parameters)
>
> and are you using the xorg-nv-driver or the closed-source nvidia-one ?
>
> what about irq-conflicts ? try taking out every other card except the
> videocard and see what happens
>

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