OGL (was Re: Random total lockups)

[Cyrus Adkisson]

Jeff Vian wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 19:03, Micheal wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 17:08, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 02:27, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: 
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>>>>It would appear that on Jul 18, Rob Brown-Bayliss did say:
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>>>>>I have just changed my screen saver to a blank screen, it was an OGL
>>>>>screen saver so lets see.
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>>>>Well I hope that works for you. In my case I found I could let power
>>>>management do the screen blanking with the old kernel, just as long as
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>>>So far so good.  It seems to be working, as in no crashes for  two
>>>days.  But hell, screen savers causing a total lock up?  Thats scary.
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>>>Rob Brown-Bayliss
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>>>The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but
>>>that he cannot believe anyone else.
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>>Yep, had the same problems here, went to a blank screensaver and no
>>lockups.  I did find, however that it was just X locked. I "could" ssh
>>into the box and safely reboot it.
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>>My poor .02
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>>Micheal
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>The problem seems (from postings on this list) to be related to use of
>GL.  If you pick a non-GL screensaver it usually is ok according to
>those that have had similar problems.
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No, the problem related to the very first posts here are NOT screensaver 
related because those of us that are having "random total lockups" can't 
ssh in and shut the thing down safely. If others are in the same boat as 
I am, the box won't even ping after the lockup. Those that are having 
screen saver-related issues, from what I can gather here, are able to 
ssh in from another machine.

Also, I stand corrected about my supposed solution from before. It's the 
most bizarre thing... I was having a couple of lockups per day, switched 
my USB cable to a different slot and thought I had it solved. I went for 
a full 10 days without a lockup. Now all of a sudden, I've had four 
lockups over the past three days. I guess I didn't fix it after all. My 
screensaver has been completely disabled the whole time. I've also tried 
acpi=off as a boot parameter and have turned off everything I can think 
of in the BIOS to no avail.

My next plan of attack is to swap my ethernet cards out for two brand 
new ones, run a memory test with a boot CD, remove all USB in favor of 
PS/2, and if nothing else works, switch motherboards. If anyone has been 
having similar problems (especially someone with a similar hardware 
config as mine) please let me know.

FC2, dual opteron, MSI k8t master-FAR motherboard, USB mouse/kybd with 
KVM switch.

Cyrus