Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-03-25 Thread Martin Briza
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:32:26 +0100, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: I have same CPU (i5-2500k) and same GPU (Sandybridge Intel HD3000), I looked on bugzilla but couldn't find any open bugs that are related, if anybody knows of one please share the linl. Most of the time I work through the d

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-28 Thread Arun SAG
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:02 PM, valent.turko...@gmail.com < valent.turko...@gmail.com> wrote: > Found these instructions: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_kdump_to_debug_kernel_crashes > > And updated to kernel 3.8 rc2 from rawhide and enabled kdump on that > kernel... trap is set, now I

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-09 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:02 PM, valent.turko...@gmail.com < valent.turko...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > >> Google results for "xorg hangs Sandybridge i915" turn up a whole lot of >> results (sadly). Among the first page results is one report that a

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-09 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
> > Thanks, didn't think of that one. Just installed it, thanks for the tip. >> I'll report back in few days with new status. >> > > This time it froze after 1.5 days only. Here are the last line from system > log: > > Jan 6 01:01:02 iskon-valent root: 01:01:02 up 1 day, 13:53, 1 user, load > aver

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-09 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
Switching off the acceleration or switching to SNA would be the first > try. Create a file named "20-intel.conf" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d > containing > > Section "Device" >Identifier "Card0" >Driver "intel" >Option "AccelMethod" "SNA" > EndSection > > to choose SNA or > > Section "Devic

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-09 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Google results for "xorg hangs Sandybridge i915" turn up a whole lot of > results (sadly). Among the first page results is one report that a bad > BIOS was responsible for the problem. Have you updated yours? > I haven't updated my bios,

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.01.2013, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Google results for "xorg hangs Sandybridge i915" turn up a whole lot of > results (sadly). Among the first page results is one report that a bad BIOS > was responsible for the problem. Have you updated yours? Switching off the acceleration or switching to

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
Google results for "xorg hangs Sandybridge i915" turn up a whole lot of results (sadly). Among the first page results is one report that a bad BIOS was responsible for the problem. Have you updated yours? Has this system ever run a Linux distribution that didn't hang/crash? It may be useful

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-07 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:01 AM, valent.turko...@gmail.com < valent.turko...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Chris Smart wrote: > >> Could you just build/install kernel 3.7.0 from rawhide? >> >> > Thanks, didn't think of that one. Just installed it, thanks for the tip. > I'll

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-04 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Chris Smart wrote: > Could you just build/install kernel 3.7.0 from rawhide? > > Thanks, didn't think of that one. Just installed it, thanks for the tip. I'll report back in few days with new status. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscri

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-04 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Chris Smart wrote: > If you don't want to/can't install a different card, maybe try disable > i915 driver, kernel based mode-setting and use the vesa driver. > I was running vesa driver with same result, froze after 2-5 days of uptime. I bought NEW ram, pulled ou

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-03 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 03.01.2013, Chris Smart wrote: > If you don't want to/can't install a different card, maybe try disable > i915 driver, kernel based mode-setting and use the vesa driver. In this case you could try to boot with i915.i915_enable_rc6=0 and using SNA: Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Dr

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-03 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 03.01.2013, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > Now I ended up with 55MB kernel image, that is 10x bigger than fedora > kernels, and 140MB initramfs for 3.7.1 kernel which I don't have space for > on my /boot partition :( > great. My whole /boot is just around 83M, and it contains at least thr

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-03 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 03.01.2013, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > Downloaded and compiled 3.7.1 vanilla kernel from kernel.org and used this > awesome tutorial: > http://linuxtweaking.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-compile-kernel-from-kernelorg-in.html You can keep things easy if you're not used to compile your ow

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-03 Thread Chris Smart
On 01/03/2013 08:49 PM, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > Now I ended up with 55MB kernel image, that is 10x bigger than fedora > kernels, and 140MB initramfs for 3.7.1 kernel which I don't have space for > on my /boot partition :( > great. Could you just build/install kernel 3.7.0 from rawhide?

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-03 Thread Chris Smart
On 01/03/2013 07:11 PM, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm I not in 2013? Is this back to 1999 so I need to recompile my own > kernel to get anything working? I have been using Fedora since FC1 and > reported numerous bugs but none stopped me from working, since F16 kernel > (sandybridge atleas

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-03 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
I already thought it was some hardware issue, so I changed memory but still that doesn't explain why windows works without crashing for days when fedora freezes after 2-5 days. So my guess is that it is still a kernel issue. On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Juan Orti Alcaine wrote: > I can only s

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-03 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
Now I ended up with 55MB kernel image, that is 10x bigger than fedora kernels, and 140MB initramfs for 3.7.1 kernel which I don't have space for on my /boot partition :( great. On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:31 AM, valent.turko...@gmail.com < valent.turko...@gmail.com> wrote: > No, it is not tainted,

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-03 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
No, it is not tainted, I only use floss drivers. Downloaded and compiled 3.7.1 vanilla kernel from kernel.org and used this awesome tutorial: http://linuxtweaking.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-compile-kernel-from-kernelorg-in.html Fedora wiki si no help for compiling from kernel.org soruces On Th

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-03 Thread Juan Orti Alcaine
I can only say I'm runnig on a sandybridge CPU i7-2600K with GPU kernel driver i915 and have absolutly no problems at all. Is your kernel tainted? check this: # cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted 2013/1/3 valent.turko...@gmail.com > I'm I not in 2013? Is this back to 1999 so I need to recompile my o

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-03 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
I'm I not in 2013? Is this back to 1999 so I need to recompile my own kernel to get anything working? I have been using Fedora since FC1 and reported numerous bugs but none stopped me from working, since F16 kernel (sandybridge atleast) is shit. I have F17 and F18beta on few other machines and they

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/02/2013 07:59 PM, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > Shit, frozen again after almost 5 days of uptime. I'm switching to debian if > Fedora 18 kernel turns out to be shit as F16 & F17 :( Running F18 since my disk dying recently. Thought it close enough since release should come on the 8th

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.01.2013, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > Shit, frozen again after almost 5 days of uptime. I'm switching to debian > if Fedora 18 kernel turns out to be shit as F16 & F17 :( How about just installing a plain vanilla 3.6.11 or 3.7.1 from kernel.org? -- users mailing list users@lists.fe

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-02 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
Shit, frozen again after almost 5 days of uptime. I'm switching to debian if Fedora 18 kernel turns out to be shit as F16 & F17 :( On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:50 AM, valent.turko...@gmail.com < valent.turko...@gmail.com> wrote: > After latest updated my system finally has uptime more than 7 days!

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2012-12-28 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
After latest updated my system finally has uptime more than 7 days! That was not possible before, it would freeze every 3-5 days. I looked at latest updates my guess is that latest kernel update is "to blame" for my system not freezing anymore: Dec 17 08:35:31 Installed: kernel-3.6.10-2.fc17.x86_6

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2012-10-31 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/29/2012 06:05 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > I don't use windows However, I recently had a series of hangs on my F17 > box that I could not explain. Although I fixed the problem before installing > the lm_sensors package I would recommend installing it and checking your CPU > temps. FWIW,

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2012-10-30 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:03 AM, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: >> valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: >>> How can I troubleshoot intel driver further? >> >> Can you try to SSH into the box when it becomes non-responsive? > > Nope. I t

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2012-10-30 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: >> How can I troubleshoot intel driver further? > > Can you try to SSH into the box when it becomes non-responsive? Nope. > It could be that your box is stuck in DPMS off mode and the video card > won'

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2012-10-29 Thread JD
On 10/29/2012 02:47 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Monday, 29. October 2012. 15.32.26 valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: Most of the time I work through the day whthout hangs and leave PC running, but when I return the next day I see that monitor won't turn back on, but still hdd light blinks from

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2012-10-29 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Monday, 29. October 2012. 15.32.26 valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > Most of the time I work through the day whthout hangs and leave PC > running, but when I return the next day I see that monitor won't turn > back on, but still hdd light blinks from time to time This likely means that the mac

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2012-10-29 Thread R. Welsh
I am not familiar with the features of Sandy Bridge architecture, but there might be a couple of things you could try. If the system runs throughout the day and you are experiencing the problem at night, are there any services you can disable or adjust to see if you can isolate the cause and maybe

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2012-10-29 Thread Michael Cronenworth
valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > How can I troubleshoot intel driver further? Can you try to SSH into the box when it becomes non-responsive? It could be that your box is stuck in DPMS off mode and the video card won't wake up. The rest of the machine could be running normally and allow you to

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2012-10-29 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 12:01 +0100, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > > I don't use windows However, I recently had a series of hangs on my > > F17 box that I could not explain. Although I fixed the problem before > > installing the lm_sensors package I would recommend installing it and >

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2012-10-29 Thread Mike Chambers
On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 15:32 +0100, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > >> > Few times (much less often) Fedora hangs while I'm working, but that > happened only a few times. > > How can I troubleshoot intel driver further? Any chance of putting in a different video card and see if it still freez

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2012-10-29 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
>> 2. Problems with the video drivers. Since you did run the memory test, >> this >> is the most probable. What graphics card does your system have? > > > I'd bet on the drivers. I have Core i5-2500k (no additional graphics card, > just the integrated Intel HD 3000) in my home computer and used to

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2012-10-29 Thread Martin Briza
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:59:27 +0100 Matthew Miller wrote: 2. Problems with the video drivers. Since you did run the memory test, this is the most probable. What graphics card does your system have? I'd bet on the drivers. I have Core i5-2500k (no additional graphics card, just the integrat

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2012-10-29 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 10:39:09AM +0100, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > My work Fedora 17 64bit box gangs without reason, and I can't track > down issue causing it! When I reboot into Windows 7 32bit it works for > days without any hangs. There's several likely culprits: 1. Bad memory. Windo

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2012-10-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.10.2012, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > Because screen goes off I'm starting to think that it could be i915 > driver fault maybe? Is anybody else having issues like these and has > i915 driver with Sandybridge gpu? Is there anything showing up in the logs? You could compile a kernel wi

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2012-10-29 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
> I don't use windows However, I recently had a series of hangs on my F17 > box that I could not explain. Although I fixed the problem before installing > the lm_sensors package I would recommend installing it and checking your CPU > temps. > Neither do I, just use them as troubleshooting

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2012-10-29 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/29/2012 05:39 PM, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > My work Fedora 17 64bit box gangs without reason, and I can't track > down issue causing it! When I reboot into Windows 7 32bit it works for > days without any hangs. > > This is a company PC so IT installed Windows 7, but I don't use it, >