I use gentoo-r5 w/preemt w/low-lat, Nvidia geforce 2 mx with glx and kernel installed, X-11 4.0.2 and KDE. after about a day and a half of use, If I attempt to highlight text my X server will freeze up and cause my mouse and keyboard to become unresponsive, if a mediaplayer is working It will continue to work and when I ssh into my computer and look at top X has taken up 99% of the resources on my computer. This is CRITICAL. The kernel configurations do not appear to be the cause as I tried stripped down versions of gentoo-r4/5(w/o preemt and low lat) with the exact same symtoms. I am figuring that X, KDE, or the nvidia drivers are the problem. My use settings and installed packages are available upon request.
I'm using gentoo-r5, with preempt and low-latency turned on with my GF2MX and don't see these problems. Try using a diff wm for a few days and see what happens. I personally use enlightement.
any news on this david?
try crypto-sources now or -r7 when drobbins releases it. Also newer X/NVIDIA drivers might help. I had this problem with 4.1.0 and older NVIDIA drivers, somewhere around 1.0- 1440.
I have the newest drivers for nvidia and it doesn't matter which kernel I use they all seem to crash. However I have worked out a few symptoms: My computer usually crashes when scrolling up or down Kmail.(This is not the only program that crashes my computer but It is the one I use the most) When I highlight text. And these things only seem to cause a crash when I am doing somthing intesive....like compiling, and playing music and using kmail. You could say somthing like "Don't do so many things at once" or "It must be hard ware" but I NEED to use many programs at once and as far as I can tell bad ram or hardware isn't a factor considering that Debian, Redhat, SuSE or even win98 NEVER did this to me. I have noticed somthing strange during bootup: "Spurios 8259A Interrupt IRQ7" What does this mean, and how do I find out what is on IRQ 7?
Oh yeah it ONLY happens while I am in KDE
from the minimal information here I can tell you that nvdriver causes kernel bugs and that ther eis nothing that we can do about it because nvidia doesn't release their source code, please test with the latest gentoo-sources, but the bugs will still probably crop up from time to time.
