On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 10:44 +0100, Jean-Michel wrote: > > The main issues seems to be: > * about two seconds black screen, from time to time, when doing an action > with > keybord or mouse which have a big impact on screen, such as make a window > bigger > (with dri), or searching data within a PDF under vmware, or searching data > with > a web page on firefox (without vmware).
See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2859 . > * graphic card hang (definitive black screen, but computer works as > possibility > to change NumLock dell from console ALT-F1 to ALT-F6). Please clarify 'possibility to change NumLock dell from console ALT-F1 to ALT-F6'. Are you saying you can still switch from X to console at that point? > * some keys might be lost. That's probably an unrelated issue, the video driver doesn't have anything to do with keys. > I have two similar computers, > One works without any issue, when the other one as the kind of issue > described above. Please post full X log files from both systems. > :> The system seems to be a dual processor (according to /proc/cpuinfo). > : > :Does only using one logical CPU make a difference? > > No such a binary kernel seems to be available in debian etch testing. With these kernels, you can disable the second CPU at runtime with echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online (and re-enable it by writing 1 in there) > : How about > :running a newer kernel or disabling the DRI? > > Disabling DRI reduce the issue, but issue still exist. All of them? The intermittent blanking is (mostly) independent from the DRI, but a GPU hang/lockup (which would be my current guess for the 'definitive black screen') would be quite unusual with the DRI disabled. Also note that it was recently discovered that there can be stability issues when the X server sets up an AGP transfer mode which is different from that set up in the BIOS. You may want to check that these match. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
