Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-06-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 16:02:36 +0200, Matthias wrote in message : > Hello everybody > > It happened again, and yes this time I was using nouveau. > > # lshw -c video > *-display >description: VGA compatible controller >product: G84 [Quadro FX 1700] >vendor: nVidia Corpora

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-06-01 Thread Matthias Guentert
Hello everybody It happened again, and yes this time I was using nouveau. # lshw -c video *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: G84 [Quadro FX 1700] vendor: nVidia Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@:01:00.0 version: a1

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 21 May 2012 13:30:37 +0200, Matthias wrote in message : > Am 21.05.2012 um 12:59 schrieb Arnt Karlsen : > > ..so, will you try nouveau now, or, do we call you troll when > > you come whining for help next month? No if or but "reasons", > > yes or no, now, is _all_ I > > No ..I hea

..trolls?, was: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 21 May 2012 06:27:42 -0500, Christofer wrote in message : > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Mon, 21 May 2012 10:18:22 +0200, Matthias wrote in message > > : > > > >> 2012/5/20 Martin Steigerwald : > >> > > >> > Again: Have you ever tried the nouveau driver? >

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-21 Thread Matthias Güntert
Am 21.05.2012 um 12:59 schrieb Arnt Karlsen : > On Mon, 21 May 2012 10:18:22 +0200, Matthias wrote in message > : > >> 2012/5/20 Martin Steigerwald : >>> Am Sonntag, 20. Mai 2012 schrieb Matthias Guentert: I am really running out of ideas here... and becoming unsure if the nvidia drive

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 21 May 2012 10:18:22 +0200, Matthias wrote in message : > 2012/5/20 Martin Steigerwald : > > Am Sonntag, 20. Mai 2012 schrieb Matthias Guentert: > >> I am really running out of ideas here... and becoming unsure if the > >> nvidia driver really is the culprit. I will switch back to the nv

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-21 Thread Matthias Guentert
2012/5/20 Martin Steigerwald : > Am Sonntag, 20. Mai 2012 schrieb Matthias Guentert: >> I am really running out of ideas here... and becoming unsure if the >> nvidia driver really is the culprit. I will switch back to the nv >> driver and test for another month or so... big chill! > > Again: Have y

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 20. Mai 2012 schrieb Matthias Guentert: > I have set up remote logging just in case something get's lost on local > system. > > I am really running out of ideas here... and becoming unsure if the > nvidia driver really is the culprit. I will switch back to the nv > driver and test for

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 4. Mai 2012 schrieb Curt: > On 2012-05-04, Matthias Guentert wrote: > > Any real alternatives (in terms of performance, support, opensource > > drivers) to nvidia? > > I don't know. ATI's worse, IMHO. There's the new 'nouveau' nvidia > driver (bilingual redundancy, anyone?), but I th

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-20 Thread Matthias Guentert
2012/5/15 Matthias Guentert : >> 2012/5/4 Curt : >>> Upgrade to the newest stable driver (I guess you'll have to use the nvidia >>> installer, after purging the debian package) and newest stable kernel, >>> try the remedies/workarounds suggested here, if any apply: >> >> Okay, I'll give the latest

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-15 Thread Matthias Guentert
> 2012/5/4 Curt : >> Upgrade to the newest stable driver (I guess you'll have to use the nvidia >> installer, after purging the debian package) and newest stable kernel, >> try the remedies/workarounds suggested here, if any apply: > > Okay, I'll give the latest version a try. Let's see how stable

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 04 mai 12, 14:39:34, Curt wrote: > > Are you ccing (? how do you write that ?) to my mailing address on > purpose, or is it gmail, or both? > > Must be gmail; it seems to me other people have mentioned this oddity in > the past. Gmail doesn't have reply-list so it needs additional work fr

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-04 Thread Curt
On 2012-05-04, Matthias Guentert wrote: > > Any real alternatives (in terms of performance, support, opensource > drivers) to nvidia? I don't know. ATI's worse, IMHO. There's the new 'nouveau' nvidia driver (bilingual redundancy, anyone?), but I think it needs work. Are you ccing (? how do you

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 4 May 2012 16:09:57 +0200, Matthias wrote in message : > 2012/5/4 Curt : > > Upgrade to the newest stable driver (I guess you'll have to use the > > nvidia installer, after purging the debian package) and newest > > stable kernel, try the remedies/workarounds suggested here, if any > > ap

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-04 Thread Matthias Guentert
2012/5/4 Curt : > Upgrade to the newest stable driver (I guess you'll have to use the nvidia > installer, after purging the debian package) and newest stable kernel, > try the remedies/workarounds suggested here, if any apply: Okay, I'll give the latest version a try. Let's see how stable that one

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-04 Thread Curt
On 2012-05-04, Matthias Guentert wrote: > Okay what's next? How can I provide more information / enable > debugging for this module? > Upgrade to the newest stable driver (I guess you'll have to use the nvidia installer, after purging the debian package) and newest stable kernel, try the remedie

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 4 May 2012 12:56:01 +0200, Matthias wrote in message : > 2012/5/1 Matthias Guentert : > > Thanks for your reply - very appreciated. Currently I am running > > Windows Vista on a third harddisk to see if a hardware fault can be > > excluded being the culprit. So far I did not had one freez

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-04 Thread Matthias Guentert
2012/5/1 Matthias Guentert : > Thanks for your reply - very appreciated. Currently I am running > Windows Vista on a third harddisk to see if a hardware fault can be > excluded being the culprit. So far I did not had one freeze since > weeks running Vista. This points back to your suspicion. I will

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-01 Thread Matthias Guentert
2012/4/30 Curt : > Well, I've been bitten a few times by the logical fallacy referred to by > the Latin phrase _post hoc ergo propter hoc_, so I'm dubious concerning > the usb trail, although I'm as ignorant as I am dubious. > > For every system freeze I have ever experienced, the guilty party was

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-04-30 Thread Curt
On 2012-04-25, Matthias Guentert wrote: > Hello everyone > > Lately I changed from Fedora to Debian squeeze on amd64. A few days > later my system started to freeze randomly. I first noticed this > behaviour while I was copying files from my system disk to my USB > disk, but don't think this is th

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-04-25 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:10:02PM +0200, Matthias Guentert wrote: > Hello everyone > > Lately I changed from Fedora to Debian squeeze on amd64. A few days > later my system started to freeze randomly. I first noticed this > behaviour while I was copying files from my system disk to my USB > disk,

Random system freezes - need your input

2012-04-25 Thread Matthias Guentert
Hello everyone Lately I changed from Fedora to Debian squeeze on amd64. A few days later my system started to freeze randomly. I first noticed this behaviour while I was copying files from my system disk to my USB disk, but don't think this is the culprit. After having searched high and low on my