Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-09 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 07.07.2011 23:59, schrieb walt: > When I run glxgears with the proprietary nvidia driver I get 3000 FPS. > With nouveau I get 54 FPS. That looks for me that nouveau has vsync on and the proprietary is not. Such a difference should not be if everything is configured and installed right. Greeti

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-08 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 04:19:46 -0500, Dale wrote: That's a kernel panic. You can have the system reboot itself after a panic by adding kernel.panic=N to /etc/sysctl.conf, where N is the number of seconds to wait before rebooting. Kewl !!! I just saw that in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 04:19:46 -0500, Dale wrote: > > That's a kernel panic. You can have the system reboot itself after a > > panic by adding kernel.panic=N to /etc/sysctl.conf, where N is the > > number of seconds to wait before rebooting. > Kewl !!! I just saw that in the file but it is comment

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-08 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 23:43:58 -0500, Dale wrote: One thing I did learn, if the lights on the keyboard are blinking, it's locked up tight. That's a kernel panic. You can have the system reboot itself after a panic by adding kernel.panic=N to /etc/sysctl.conf, where

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 23:43:58 -0500, Dale wrote: > One thing I did learn, if the lights on the keyboard > are blinking, it's locked up tight. That's a kernel panic. You can have the system reboot itself after a panic by adding kernel.panic=N to /etc/sysctl.conf, where N is the number of seconds t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-08 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Mick wrote: I'm stating the obvious here, but have you tried restoring from a back up that you made before these problems started? I usually have a backup but I got rid of it a month or so ago. I was planning to take the drive out and use it for something else but never got ar

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-08 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Friday 08 Jul 2011 05:43:58 Dale wrote: walt wrote: On 07/05/2011 10:38 PM, Dale wrote: My current plan, finish this new install. Test the ram and hope it is OK. I can feel your pain :( This may not help, but I thought I'd mention it just because n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-07 Thread Mick
On Friday 08 Jul 2011 05:43:58 Dale wrote: > walt wrote: > > On 07/05/2011 10:38 PM, Dale wrote: > >> My current plan, finish this new install. Test the ram and hope it is > >> OK. > > > > I can feel your pain :( This may not help, but I thought I'd mention it > > just because nothing else has h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-07 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 07/05/2011 10:38 PM, Dale wrote: My current plan, finish this new install. Test the ram and hope it is OK. I can feel your pain :( This may not help, but I thought I'd mention it just because nothing else has helped so far. I started having random keyboard issues ri

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-07 Thread walt
On 07/05/2011 10:38 PM, Dale wrote: > My current plan, finish this new install. Test the ram and hope it is OK. I can feel your pain :( This may not help, but I thought I'd mention it just because nothing else has helped so far. I started having random keyboard issues right after the most rece

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 07 July 2011 14:59:11 walt did opine thusly: > On 07/06/2011 01:11 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > So I switched to - nouveau and now I have endless shit with > > crashes. But I can tolerate that and not whinge. > > Just today I tried the nouveau driver again after almost a year, and

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-07 Thread walt
On 07/06/2011 01:11 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > So I switched to - nouveau and now I have endless shit with > crashes. But I can tolerate that and not whinge. Just today I tried the nouveau driver again after almost a year, and found no change. The test was on my elderly machine with an a