On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote: > On Wednesday 06 July 2011 01:03:03 Dale wrote: > >> I might add, the last time it locked up, I had a compile process running >> in a console. I watched the hard drive light, it was blinking away. >> So, the root of the system was running but for some reason, I could not >> get my mouse or keyboard to work. It appears it is the GUI part that is >> locking up but whatever it is, it is not affecting Fluxbox. I also >> tried the shift alt F12 to disable composite as well. > > This is sounding more and more like the lockups I've been experiencing. In > my case it was every distro other than Gentoo. > > I'm trying Fedora with "Asus Express Gate" switched off in the BIOS, and it > seems to be helping. I know you don't have an Asus motherboard though, so > I'm not helping :-( > > When did you last recompile your kernel? What version is it? (Sorry if > you've told us already, but if so I missed it.) > > -- > Rgds > Peter
Speaking as someone who runs 100% (except when I don't) I wonder if this is driven at all by the use of testing packages? I have only Asus & Intel MB's and laptops here. They all use the NVidia closed source testing driver except one which uses the Intel driver. None of them are experiencing any lockups at any time that I know of. This is pretty typical of where I don't run stable: c2stable ~ # cat /etc/portage/package.keywords sys-kernel/gentoo-sources ~amd64 sys-apps/portage ~* app-portage/eix ~amd64 app-emulation/virtualbox ~amd64 app-emulation/virtualbox-modules ~amd64 app-emulation/virtualbox-additions ~amd64 x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox ~amd64 x11-drivers/xf86-input-virtualbox ~amd64 app-emulation/vmware-modules ~amd64 app-emulation/vmware-tools ~amd64 app-emulation/vmware-player ~amd64 x11-libs/libview ~amd64 sci-libs/ta-lib ~amd64 sys-power/cpufrequtils ~amd64 media-libs/tiff ~amd64 dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit ~amd64 dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk ~amd64 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~amd64 dev-util/codeblocks ~amd64 x11-misc/read-edid ~amd64 net-im/skype ~amd64 app-forensics/chkrootkit ~amd64 dev-lang/R ~amd64 c2stable ~ # Cheers, Mark
