[rhn-users] X lock up
Brian R Smith
brian at cypher.acomp.usf.edu
Mon May 9 19:05:37 UTC 2005
Dave,
Any chance you can use the binary nvidia drivers from Nvidia or is
something keeping you from that? I've seen this behavior with
OpenOffice before, however, this was probably well over a year ago.
-Brian
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 11:44 -0600, David Armstrong wrote:
> Brian,
> You are correct it is an NVIDIA card and I am using it in vesa mode.
>
> Dave
>
>
> output of lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. E7525 Memory Controller Hub (rev 09)
> 00:00.1 Class ff00: Intel Corp. E7525/E7520 Error Reporting Registers
> (rev 09)
> 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. E7525/E7520/E7320 PCI Express Port A
> (rev 09)
> 00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. E7525/E7520/E7320 PCI Express Port A1
> (rev 09)
> 00:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. E7525/E7520 PCI Express Port B (rev 09)
> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI
> Controller #1 (rev 02)
> 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI
> Controller #2 (rev 02)
> 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3
> (rev 02)
> 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI
> Controller #4 (rev 02)
> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI
> Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface
> Bridge (rev 02)
> 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE
> Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R)
> AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
> 01:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 6700PXH PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge A
> 01:00.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 6700PXH PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge B
> 03:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82545GM Gigabit Ethernet
> Controller (rev 04)
> 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV37GL [Quadro FX
> 330] (rev a2)
> [
>
>
> Brian R Smith wrote:
>
> >David,
> >
> >What type of video card do you have on your machine? What
> >does /sbin/lspci say is your VGA controller? The fact that you use the
> >VESA driver indicates to me that you are using (as it's a dell) an
> >NVIDIA card, though I'd like to be sure.
> >
> >-Brian
> >
> >On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 11:18 -0600, David Armstrong wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Brian R Smith wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>If you don't mind, forward us a copy of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> >>>
> >>>-Brian
> >>>
> >>>On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 09:18 -0600, David Armstrong wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>After the latest OpenOffice upgrades I have been having trouble with X
> >>>>locking up, anyone else out there having this problem?
> >>>>
> >>>>I can reproduce to consistently by opening a spreadsheet and selecting
> >>>>several rows or columns using the control key and mouse.
> >>>>
> >>>>System Dell Precision 470 running RHEL 4.0 64 bit
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Borg-x11-Xdmx-6.8.1-23.EL.x86_64.rpm
> >>>>xorg-x11-Xnest-6.8.1-23.EL.x86_64.rpm
> >>>>xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.1-23.EL.x86_64.rpm
> >>>>xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.1-23.EL.x86_64.rpm
> >>>>xorg-x11-devel-6.8.1-23.EL.x86_64.rpm
> >>>>xorg-x11-doc-6.8.1-23.EL.x86_64.rpm
> >>>>xorg-x11-sdk-6.8.1-23.EL.x86_64.rpm
> >>>>
> >>>>openoffice.org-libs-1.1.2-24.6.0.EL4
> >>>>openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.2-24.6.0.EL4
> >>>>openoffice.org-1.1.2-24.6.0.EL4
> >>>>
> >>>>_______________________________________________
> >>>>rhn-users mailing list
> >>>>rhn-users at redhat.com
> >>>>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>plain text document attachment (xorg.conf)
> >># Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
> >>
> >>Section "ServerLayout"
> >> Identifier "single head configuration"
> >> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> >> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> >> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> >>EndSection
> >>
> >>Section "Files"
> >>
> >># RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
> >># file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
> >># no need to change the default.
> >># Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
> >># By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
> >># the X server to render fonts.
> >> RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> >> FontPath "unix/:7100"
> >>EndSection
> >>
> >>Section "Module"
> >> Load "dbe"
> >> Load "extmod"
> >> Load "fbdevhw"
> >> Load "glx"
> >> Load "record"
> >> Load "freetype"
> >> Load "type1"
> >> Load "dri"
> >>EndSection
> >>
> >>Section "InputDevice"
> >>
> >># Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
> >># Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
> >># To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
> >># Option "XkbDisable"
> >># To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
> >># lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
> >># keyboard, you will probably want to use:
> >># Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
> >># If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
> >># Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
> >>#
> >># Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
> >># For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
> >># Option "XkbLayout" "de"
> >># or:
> >># Option "XkbLayout" "de"
> >># Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
> >>#
> >># If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
> >># control keys, use:
> >># Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
> >># Or if you just want both to be control, use:
> >># Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
> >>#
> >> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> >> Driver "kbd"
> >> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
> >> Option "XkbLayout" "us"
> >>EndSection
> >>
> >>Section "InputDevice"
> >> Identifier "Mouse0"
> >> Driver "mouse"
> >> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> >> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> >> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> >> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
> >>EndSection
> >>
> >>Section "Monitor"
> >> Identifier "Monitor0"
> >> VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
> >> ModelName "ViewSonic PF790"
> >> HorizSync 30.0 - 97.0
> >> VertRefresh 50.0 - 180.0
> >> Option "dpms"
> >>EndSection
> >>
> >>Section "Device"
> >> Identifier "Videocard0"
> >> Driver "vesa"
> >> VendorName "Videocard vendor"
> >> BoardName "VESA driver (generic)"
> >>EndSection
> >>
> >>Section "Screen"
> >> Identifier "Screen0"
> >> Device "Videocard0"
> >> Monitor "Monitor0"
> >> DefaultDepth 24
> >> SubSection "Display"
> >> Viewport 0 0
> >> Depth 16
> >> Modes "800x600" "640x480"
> >> EndSubSection
> >> SubSection "Display"
> >> Viewport 0 0
> >> Depth 24
> >> Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> >> EndSubSection
> >>EndSection
> >>
> >>Section "DRI"
> >> Group 0
> >> Mode 0666
> >>EndSection
> >>
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