On Sun, 24 May 2009 21:57:18 -0700 "Aaron L." <elmastero74@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hmmm.......did my reply to Drew go to just him? > > This gmail sort-by-subject thing can get weird. > > Anyway, I wanted to make sure my symptoms were included in this as > well, so here it is: > > Great thread. > > I've been having intermittent lockups on my machine since I installed > UbuntuStudio on it about 8 months ago. > > Started on Hardy. Now on Intrepid. > > It took me so long to get Compiz working with my Nvidia GeForce FX > 5200 that I don't want to even think about moving to Jaunty. > > I've ran memtest at least 3 times now with no errors being returned > each time. I used to think it had something to do with a screensaver > (and the nvidia driver) but I don't think that's the case. I've been > sitting in front of it while it's happened and it usually goes like > this: > > 1. usually Firefox dies (last night it happened when I viewed a > myspace page so it almost seems like a Flash issue) > 2. the screen goes blank (black) > 3. my mouse cursor turns into the spinning cursor although I can > still move it for a few seconds (10-15 or so seconds, I'd say) > 4. finally, a 100% freeze although I can still see my router/hub > blinking so it looks like there is network activity > > Then I have to do a hard restart. > > Funny thing as sometimes it won't happen for a couple of weeks and > I'll think, "Sweet! It's fixed!" > > Then it'll happen twice in a day. Can't imagine that it's good for > the hard drive with all these hard restarts. > > I have a mac laptop sitting nearby though. I'll try the ssh bit when > it happens and maybe I can figure something out. Sounds similar to what happens to me (except the flash/firefox thing). It happens with graphics heavy stuff and during heavy compiles (kernel..). Mouse is only sometimes responsive for a few seconds. thought it was gone with 2.6.29 but it came back after a few weeks.. I'm pretty sure it's hardware related, overheating or something with graphics since it also happened when I had installed windows a few years ago to play at a LAN-party. Now it starts to get annoying, I'm just waiting for the perfect laptop that can be used as audio workstation.. --Philipp _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
