Fedora 19 Freezes

[linuxnutster at videotron.ca]

On 02/07/2014 04:27 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 02/07/2014 11:25 AM, linuxnutster at videotron.ca issued this missive:
>> I have been getting a lot of freezes in Fedora 19, usually once the
>> screensaver kicks in for a while, but also at the login prompt and when
>> using firefox. The most recent freeze involved the screensaver. It
>> simply locked up with the screensaver image frozen and still visible.
>> The mouse cursor was locked and there was no activity. I ran a memtest
>> and hard drive tests and everything came back fine.
>>
>> I do remember seeing several ABRT messages regarding the nvidia driver
>> I'm using being a proprietary driver ...etc... some open source
>> programmers hate proprietary drives... something along that end. I
>> recently had surgery and was having trouble paying attention. ABRT also
>> no longer seems to function, and I have updated to the latest kernel and
>> video drivers.
>>
>> Where do I look for log entries to enable troubleshooting, and has
>> anybody else experienced this? Any help would be appreciated.
>
> If it's truly locked up, you may have issues. If an "ALT-F2" brings up
> a console screen, as root try to look at the output of "dmesg" and
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log. If you have to reboot, then you really only have
> the /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old (which should be the X log for the previous
> boot).
>
> I also have to use a proprietary nVidia driver on F19 as the nouveau
> driver seizes up nastily on my hardware (an nVidia G86 [Quadro NVS
> 290] built into my Dell T3400).
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Stupid question - if for whatever reason I have both kmod-nvidia and 
akmod-nvidia installed simultaneously, can this cause issues?

The one thing I do see in Xorg1.log.old is the following:

[ 11170.219] (==) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (==) framebuffer bpp 32
[ 11170.219] (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
[ 11170.219] (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
[ 11170.219] (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
[ 11170.219] (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 2D acceleration
[ 11170.220] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Failed to determine chip graphics 
capabilities

Plus from Xorg.0 a row of these regarding the display screen:

  81.659] (II) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Display (Ancor Communications Inc ASUS 
VH196 (DFP-0)) does not
[    84.142] (II) NVIDIA(GPU-0):     support NVIDIA 3D Vision stereo.
[    84.193] (II) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Display (Ancor Communications Inc ASUS 
VH196 (DFP-0)) does not
[    84.193] (II) NVIDIA(GPU-0):     support NVIDIA 3D Vision stereo.