On 09/09/2013 01:15 PM, William Mattison issued this missive:
Good afternoon, This is Fedora-19 on a 64 bit quad-core i7; with an Nvidia GEFORCE GTX 660. I most recently updated Fedora last Wednesday, Sept. 04. At least once each day, the system just locks up with no advanced warning or symptoms. It just stops responding to the trackball and keystrokes. The display simply stops changing. The only things I can do is a hard reset or cut off the power. I am not aware of any pattern to what I'm doing when such a freeze-up happens. Once it happened after logging in and simply launching a terminal window; another time I was doing a "more" on a test file; another time I was reading e-mail through Firefox; another time I was listening to a CD; another time I was preparing to burn an audio CD. No error messages show up on the screen. This problem has been occurring for a few weeks now, and was occurring when I had Fedora-18 also. I just now think I have the time to try to handle it. (I'm guessing this will take some doing!) I'm just a home user. I have no sys. admin. training or experience. How do I diagnose and fix this? Thank-you in advance for your help.
Need a lot more info: Make and model of computer Video card type (nVidia, Intel, ATI, etc.) Memory size Disk size and type You can (as root) run "dmidecode" and "lspci" from the command line and include that with your response. We can then try to help you. Generally speaking, a lot of these freezes have to do with the video driver. I have similar issues when using the "nouveau" driver on my nVidia card on one of my machines if I try to make it run in 1920x1200 mode. If I force it to use an underlying framebuffer driver, it stays alive but I'm limited to much lower display resolution. I've had to revert to using the nVidia binary driver if I want a reasonable display and no freezes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Okay, who put a "stop payment" on my reality check? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
