Re: Debian Wheezy, Gnome 3, and nVidia graphics cards

2013-11-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 19 nov 13, 22:57:41, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > I just ran this just now (not expecting to find anything since the machine > is fine) and I see it produces a detailed process list as a one-off. I will > run when the problem hits as you suggested. Anything in particular you are > looking for?

Re: Debian Wheezy, Gnome 3, and nVidia graphics cards

2013-11-19 Thread Mark Fletcher
Andrei POPESCU gmail.com> writes: > > > Could you please try to run following command before killing gdm3 and > post the output here? > > top -b -n 1 > > Kind regards, > Andrei Thanks Andrei, I will try this at the weekend, machine is running critical tasks while the markets are open s

Re: Debian Wheezy, Gnome 3, and nVidia graphics cards

2013-11-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 19 nov 13, 22:40:56, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > I am running Gnome launched from GDM3. When I select regular Gnome (ie > "new" Gnome with the bells and whistles) it works for a while and then > randomly freezes -- often but not exclusively when I am trying to switch > desktops, watch a video,

Debian Wheezy, Gnome 3, and nVidia graphics cards

2013-11-19 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello the list! I am running Wheezy on a self-built Intel Core i7 920 with 24GB of RAM and an nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ graphics card. I am using the nVidia proprietary driver downloaded from the debian repository along with the kernel module built by the usual Debian installation process. I am ru