computer freezing

[jim ruxton]

On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 09:20 -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> On 3/18/07, jim ruxton <cinetron-uEvt2TsIf2EsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Thanks Alex, I have a nvidia card so probably not this. I'm going to try
> > KDE for a while as opposed to Gnome and see if that makes a difference.
> 
> What is unfortunate is that that might well appear to "help," although
> it would essentially involve masking the true problem.
Yes but it will help me isolate whether I have a serious hardware
problem and maybe tell me if gnome is somehow corrupted.
> 
> It's more than likely that the root problem lies in some interaction
> between the driver for your X server and the graphics card.  That
> would be the classic reason for a system lockup.
> 
> But it is also simultaneously possible that the problem is only
> exposed by certain X rendering operations, and that the problem will
> be more likely to be "tickled" by some applications than by others.

> 
> In fact, I had much this problem, back in the earliest days of the
> nVidia "GeForce" cards; I wound up deactivating all of the OpenGL
> screensavers because there was a propensity for the graphics card to
> get deranged, locking the whole system, when processing OpenGL
> requests.  The card wound up frying itself, eventually, so the proper
> answer was ultimately replacement.  But I did cut down on crashes by a
> reconfiguration of xscreensaver...
Ok thanks I'll try to sink my teeth into this.
Jim

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