On 02/07/2014 04:27 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 02/07/2014 11:25 AM, linuxnutster(a)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.