System hangs up randomly

v0n0 · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 11

Hi, I'm a Gentoo newbie!

I just installed gentoo yesterday, it was easy with gentoo handbook and now I have my Athlon64 laptop running kde with nvidia drivers...nearly running...in fact I experience system lock ups while I'm using X but I can't find out why!!!!! I'm pretty sure there is a conflict between something in kernel and nvidia drivers, because I had same problems with Debian Sid 64 with kernel over 2.6.8. If I start kdm but then switch to a console and work there, all goes right. Instead it hangs even in kdm screen certain times, but it seems a very random beahviour because it can happen after 10mins either.

My system:
Athlon64 mobile 3000+
Nvidia Geforce 5650 Go
Nvidia nforce 3
Gentoo amd64
nvidia drivers 8756 (latest) from gentoo
kernel compiled by myself from gentoo-sources 2.6.15-rc7 (I have compiled only VESA framebuffer)
KDE 3.5.2

The funny thing is that running when Kororaa XGL demo cd (uses nvidia proprietary drivers) all works!!!

Anybody can help? Thanks

richard.scott · Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 11:19 am Post subject:

I've had that sort of a problem on a server when compiling stuff.

I found that removing SMP support from the kernel fixed my lockup issues.

Hope this is your problem too. :wink:

v0n0 · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 11

Thanks but I haven't SMP support.
However searching in these forums I found an apparent solution:
Option "NVAGP" "0"
in my xorg.conf (disables AGP) and poll=idle noapic nolapic in my grub line!