Hello all, I recently upgraded my computer to AMD64 bit system and happily installed the testing/unstable Debian on it (updated last time few days ago). All has been pretty ok, but I seem to get these full system freezes every now and then.
The system is: AMD 3200+ Newcastle Asus A8V motherboard 1024 Mb Corsair memory Samsung P120 200 GB hard disk LG 4167 CD/DVD RW drive ASUS V9570TD 256 Mb GForce 5700 video card Now, the video card is piece of junk crashing to the desktop on NWN and other 3D games quite often. I have tried latest two nvidia drivers. Not the 7676 version that is supposed to be pretty stable (but unfortunately installs the libraries to wrong location and I have had no time to start fiddling around with it). What happens is that apparently without any proper reason the system just freezes. It may be that there is no much activity going on when this happens and logs seem to be totally unaware of such thing happening. I am most of the time running X and kde 3.4. Anyway, today I made a (QT) program to transfer some ogg vorbis files to wav (oggdec) and to mp2 (toolame) and move the resulting files to some other location (which happened to be USB memory). And this really seems to upset the system as it did freeze twice in a row when trying this out. I could be a mixture of processor load and disk / usb traffic that causes it. The program is bugless, of course. ;) I myself might bet on the video card, memory (ran memtest86+ on it few times no obvious holes in there) or the disk. I have tried to tune down the memory and disk settings but that does not seem to help. Does anyone have an idea of how should I proceed with this and what do you think what is causing these freezes? I am not a hardware specialist nor I still do not know the secrets of Linux kernel altough I have been using Linux since 2000 or so. I have a feeling that the freezes were more common with the earlier nvidia driver... But I cannot be sure. Thanks for help and pointers. -- Rami Saarinen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
