I have been experiencing random X lockups since I upgraded to mozilla-1.2.1. A discussion on the forum has been started, and it would appear that the 'nvidia' driver is responsible. These lockups are random, but not entirely unreproducable. Use a web browser to open a very large/complex page and proceed to scroll up and down very fast and loading other pages simultaneously. These lockups cause the physical terminal to lockup as well, so little information can be provided. The data I have gathered indicates that X tries to consume all available processing power; it is uncertain whether or not that time is user or system time. It is claimed that the 'nv' driver does not have this problem.
which version of nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel?
That is why 4191 is marked as unstable. Downgrade to the stable version.
I'm using 3123. I'm trying out the suggestion about turning off Rendering Acceleration, it seems to have stopped, but why does this problem surface when rendering web pages more often than when rendering other things?
Maybe a specific problem with the nvidia render extension and how mozilla use it? What AGPGART are you using ?
Created attachment 7872 [details] XF86Config with nvidia driver that does not randomly lock up Remove the "RenderAccel no" option and random lockups will occur. I use the nvidia AGP driver unless my memory fails me.
Maybe try to use the kernel agpgart driver or vise versa if you use it? Try to check with: # lsmod | grep agp Wont work though if compiled in.
Created attachment 7913 [details] Kernel configuration file for machine AGP is compiled as a module, and is not loaded: Module Size Used by Tainted: P eeprom 3284 0 (unused) adm1025 4592 0 (unused) lm80 4764 0 (unused) i2c-i801 4148 0 (unused) i810_rng 2464 0 (unused) ipt_MASQUERADE 1240 1 (autoclean) iptable_nat 14296 1 (autoclean) [ipt_MASQUERADE] ppp_synctty 5664 0 (unused) snd-mixer-oss 13144 1 (autoclean) snd-seq-midi 3872 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 3528 0 [snd-seq-midi] snd-seq 40144 1 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event] snd-ens1371 13420 1 snd-pcm 64256 0 [snd-ens1371] snd-timer 11688 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi 14528 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1371] snd-seq-device 4252 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd-ac97-codec 30724 0 [snd-ens1371] snd 29196 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec] sb_lib 33262 0 (unused) mpu401 18692 0 (unused) uart401 6308 0 [sb_lib] sound 51444 0 [sb_lib mpu401 uart401] soundcore 3524 5 [snd sb_lib sound] NVdriver 1066816 10 usb-storage 21388 0 (unused)
Hi - how is the latest version these days ? If still issues, please reopen. PS: sorry for no response in a long time ... time is just an issue these days ... Thanks.