X freezing

Wynd · 06-09-2004, 02:00 AM

Sometimes when I am using Xwindows in Slackware, the whole GUI freezes and I can't fo anything. My computer works fine otherwise - I can serve web pages, hear the music I was listening to, log in via ssh, etc. If I do log in via ssh and run top, X is taking up 99% of my CPU and I have to remotely reboot my computer. It does this with the xfree86 packages and the x11 packages. What could be the cause?

slackwarefan · 06-09-2004, 02:43 AM

What kind of hardware do you have, most importantly, what type of video card?

Wynd · 06-09-2004, 12:07 PM

My video card is a GeForce FX 5200 with 64 MB of RAM.

Nis · 06-09-2004, 02:05 PM

Post the output of 'cat /var/log/XFree86.0.log' or equivalent for Xorg.