I am having a problem which locks the desktop but which I don't know how to pinpoint. The symptoms are an unresponsive desktop. No response to mouse or keyboard movement. Focus doesn't change, nothing is clickable and no animations on the mouse or on the desktop (karamba) actually animate. The mouse however is still movable. The problem happens at any time of the day. Reguardless of window manager, mouse icons, desktop environment, programs running, whether the computer is in use, in screensaver mode, or in powersaver mode and reguardless of how long it has been since the last crash. It varies any where from ever 5min to a couple of days. I do know however that the computer continues to run and I can clear the problem by SSH'ing into the box and doing a killall -9 X. I assume that my problem is with XFree86 since nothing else is consisant among all crashes. I am running Xfree86 4.3-23mdk, kernel 2.4.22.21mdk, and usually kde 3.1.3-79.1.92mdk. Hardware is a Geforce 429 128mb, athlon 1.53ghz, and gigabyte motherboard. Now I know that I probably can't come in here and give that explanation and have someone pop up with what the problem is. (It would be nice if I could but I doubt that can happen.) What I would like to know is how to narrow down the problem. I do not know what logs to check, what commands to run, and what to look for to find out specifically what is causing this problem. While I have been running linux 2 or 3 years now, no-one has ever explained this to me. If you would just tell me that much I would appriciate it so I can finally find the problem as it really pisses me off to crash randomly and repeatedly. Oh, it seems that running mplayer v1.0pre2-3.3.1 with CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 causes the crash very soon after a file begins playing, but I am not absolutely sure of that. Anyway, thank you for any help you can supply Gabriel Bassett gbassett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
