Hard Lockup with Gnome 2.8

titan · n00b Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Posts: 5

I've just recently installed Gentoo again. My computer is an IBM NetVista 6830-EAU, and I am using the onboard Intel Graphics with it (i810).

I emerged kernel 2.6.10-gentoo-r4, x.org, and Gnome 2.8 last night, and hopped on this morning to test it out. I open Mozilla Firefox and go into the options to change some things, when X freaks the hell out. There are multiple colored horazontal lines runnign across the screen, and the system is completly locked up. No mouse movement, not Num/Caps/Scroll Lock lights, no Ctrl+Alt+Del or Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, and I have to depress the power button for 3 seconds to power it off. In #gentoo, I asked about this, and someone suggested to disable ACPI. My computer does not have an option to disable ACPI, only change the IRQ it uses. I did disable APM, though that did not solve the problem.

EDIT: I have WinXP running on it right now (as I have for the past few months), and I ran an old version of Gnome through Debian a few days ago, less this problem.

EDIT2: I disabled acpi by passing "acpi=off" in /boot/grub/menu.lst, reinstalling grub into (hd0,3), and remaking my bootsec.lnx in windows, and it still locks.

Roguelazer · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 10:48 pm Post subject:

I believe things like APM and APIC would be best disabled through bootloader options...
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titan · n00b Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Posts: 5

Alright, I emerged KDE over the last 26 hours, and it locks with that, but it's sorta diffrent. I can activate Caps/Num/Scroll lock, but I cannot kill X or go into another tty consoles.

user317 · Guru Joined: 26 Jan 2003 Posts: 314

its very unlikely that kde or gnome could cause a lockup, sometimes they may start consumign all your resources, but you should still be able to login and kill them. hard lockup are generally caused by misconfigured kernels or bad drivers.

sometimes though you may see more lockups in gnome as apposed to kde, (or the othe way around) this just means that gnome is doing something more often thats causing your bad driver or misconfigured kernel to fail.