Xorg 6.9.0 freezes on AMD64 system with nvidia 6200 GPU

[Robert Gilaard]

Thanks for the answer,

I am able to kill the Xorg server, but not from the
same desktop but from another machine in the network.
I have to log in through ssh and then kill the Xorg
server process. I was really fast with the process
list, I have noticed it went up to 99% in the past.

Every app in Gnome I can think of will lead to this
phenomena (gedit, mozilla, firefox.....)
The only way for me to NOT see this phenomena, is to
log in with GDM and NOT USE anaything. But the moment
I start clicking on stuff, then sooner or later the
screen locks.

The last part of your message is abracadabra for me:-)
Could you explain more what I should do with this
process in order to use gdb,dbx,etc??

Thanks
Robert

--- Stuart Kreitman <Stuart.Kreitman at Sun.COM> wrote:

> R:
> If you're able to ssh into the machine, then its not
> "locked up".
> Which apps are you referring to when you say
> "graphical apps"?
> 
> Can you kill the graphical app or kill the Xorg
> server itself?
> Since the usage is 92% and not 99%,, I suspect you
> can.
> 
> The next step is to grab the Xorg pid with
> gdb,dbx,etc and get a stack 
> trace.
> 
> skk
> 
> Robert Gilaard wrote:
> 
> >>>Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 03:25:49 -0800 (PST)
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>From: Robert Gilaard <rgilaard at yahoo.com>
> >>Subject: Xorg freezes on AMD64 system with nvidia
> >>6200 GPU
> >>To: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> >>
> >>Hi folks,
> >>
> >>I'm having troubles with Xorg 6.9.0 running on a
> >>AMD64
> >>system with a nvidia 6200 GPU. I am running
> FreeBSD
> >>6.0 as my OS.
> >>
> >>The nv driver is loaded and used. However, the
> >>moment
> >>I log into that machine and start working with the
> >>graphical apps on Gnome (have seen this freezing
> on
> >>KDE too), after a while I can't use the desktop
> any
> >>more. 
> >>I have to log in through ssh from another machine,
> >>and
> >>when I do a top, I see this:
> >>
> >>last pid:  1065;  load averages:  0.78,  0.37, 
> 0.16
> >>
> >>up 0+00:03:28    11:50:58
> >>74 processes:  2 running, 72 sleeping
> >>
> >>Mem: 122M Active, 56M Inact, 82M Wired, 1260K
> Cache,
> >>89M Buf, 709M Free
> >>Swap: 3072M Total, 3072M Free
> >>
> >>
> >>  PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE
>  
> >>
> >>TIME   WCPU COMMAND
> >>  657 root          1 139    0   130M 30420K RUN 
> >>0:55 92.48% Xorg
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >  
> >
> >> 1053 rgilaard      4  20    0   189M 57404K
> kserel 
> >>
> >>0:02  0.00% firefox-bin
> >>  994 rgilaard      4  20    0   137M 28872K
> kserel 
> >>
> >>0:01  0.00% nautilus
> >>  736 rgilaard      1  76    0 27488K 13264K
> select 
> >>
> >>0:01  0.00% gconfd-2
> >>  992 rgilaard      4  20    0   104M 24864K
> kserel 
> >>
> >>0:01  0.00% gnome-panel
> >>  855 rgilaard      4  20    0 97528K 19748K
> kserel 
> >>
> >>0:00  0.00% gnome-setting
> >>  721 rgilaard      1  76    0 79600K 16296K
> select 
> >>
> >>0:00  0.00% gnome-session
> >> 1026 rgilaard      4  20    0 89520K 19808K
> kserel 
> >>
> >>0:00  0.00% gnome-termina
> >>  998 rgilaard      1  76    0 92328K 17756K
> select 
> >>
> >>0:00  0.00% wnck-applet
> >>  987 rgilaard      1  76    0 55688K 11728K
> select 
> >>
> >>0:00  0.00% metacity
> >>
> >>As you can see the xorg process uses a lot of my
> cpu
> >>and it totally freezes. 
> >>
> >>The only way for me to work reliable on that
> machine
> >>is by logging in from another machine with ssh -Y
> >>and
> >>then start using the graphical apps from there.
> But
> >>I
> >>really want to use this machine as a normal
> desktop
> >>so
> >>this is not the preffered way.
> >>
> >>Can someone help me with this? What should I do?
> >>Nvidia doesn't provide drivers for amd64 based
> >>systems
> >>on freebsd, so I can't go that route.
> >>Thanks in advanced.
> >>
> >>My xorg.conf file looks like:
> >>Section "ServerLayout"
> >>	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
> >>	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
> >>	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> >>	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> >>EndSection
> >>
> >>Section "Files"
> >>	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> >>	ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
> >>	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
> >>	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
> >>	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
> >>	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
> >>	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
> >>	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
> >>	FontPath    
> "/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/"
> >>EndSection
> >>
> >>Section "Module"
> >>	Load  "extmod"
> >>	Load  "glx"
> >>	Load  "dri"
> >>	Load  "dbe"
> >>	Load  "record"
> >>	Load  "xtrap"
> >>	Load  "type1"
> >>	Load  "freetype"
> >>EndSection
> >>
> >>Section "InputDevice"
> >>	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
> >>	Driver      "kbd"
> >>EndSection
> >>
> >>Section "InputDevice"
> >>	Identifier  "Mouse0"
> >>	Driver      "mouse"
> >>	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
> >>	Option	    "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
> >>EndSection
> >>
> >>Section "Monitor"
> >>	#DisplaySize	  340   270	# mm
> >>	Identifier   "Monitor0"
> >>	VendorName   "HWP"
> >>	ModelName    "hp L1720"
> >> ### Uncomment if you don't want to default to
> DDC:
> >>	HorizSync    31.0 - 80.0
> >>	VertRefresh  56.0 - 75.0
> >>	Option	    "DPMS"
> >>EndSection
> >>
> >>Section "Device"
> >>        ### Available Driver options are:-
> >>        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float,
> >><bool>:
> >>"True"/"False",
> >>        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f>
> >>Hz/kHz/MHz"
> >>        ### [arg]: arg optional
> >>        #Option     "SWcursor"           	#
> [<bool>]
> >>        #Option     "HWcursor"           	#
> [<bool>]
> >>        #Option     "NoAccel"            	#
> [<bool>]
> >>        #Option     "ShadowFB"           	#
> [<bool>]
> 
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