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the weird thing is that using the USB to PS2 converter STOPPED my freezes.
Note sure if this helps at all, but I'm running RH 7.3 and have the "NvAGP" "0" option for my Nvidia G4 card. The only reason I didnt install RH 8.0 is because the whole thing would freeze as if I used the graphical install, and when I used the text install, X froze. I didnt learn the converter trick untill a while after the 7.3 install.
Has been very stable for the last few months when I have been running fluxbox. Last night I set up a login for a friend, and started loggin in as her into the fatass GNOME. I open up a gnome-console, maximize it that does it. No response to mouse clicks, no response to keyboard. Will respond remotely.
no solution here. I just leave the durn thing at the logout screen which sucks cause I like the screensavers so much. Nobody seemed to answer my question about if I should just put "NvAGP" "0" in the XF86Config file under the section "devices" or not.
I did notice that when I logged in as any other user OTHER THAN ROOT that the system freezes when trying to run graphical applications and sometimes the menu bar at the bottom totally disappears as well.....and I'm a newbie....so I've been trying to follow the convention of not being "root" user all the time, but what else am I to do, if I can only function as root without all the freezes?
Bummer. Any suggestions? I am running a webserver, ftp and they still function greatly while all this memory crud is going on...and while rebooting has been an option for me, I don't like to do it, I would like to run my screensavers....and not have to log in as root anytime I need to do something....
Monkette, nobody responded because you are running a Voodoo card. The "NvAGP" "0" option is only for people that have installed the Nvidia drivers. This tells Xfree not to load the Nvidia AGP driver or the APGART driver (default).
I have found my system to very stable in this configuration. Yes, I also use a MS Explorer mouse w/PS2. 3D accelleration is still enabled, just the fine points of AGP are lost. No big deal if you're not an avid gamer.
I would suggest that you disable the APGART driver & try that. However, since I am also a newbie, I can't tell you how to do that. Perhaps someone can post the option to turn off APGART in the Xfree config file???
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monkette, it is interesting to know that you can login as root and avoid those annoying 'freezes'. I haven't run X as root in years, but I'll give it a shot tonight and see if I can see some kind of pattern.
pczeilon, I have been using "NvAGP" "1" for the past few months, but since I ran into the GNOME trouble that I'd posted, I tried using "NvAGP" "0". That didnt help. For nvidia's AGP driver to work, it is necessary to have the kernel agpgart module unloaded. The XF86Config options, if you're using the nvidia drivers are as follows.
--- Excerpt from the NVidia Driver documentation. (4191 series drivers )
Default: Option “NvAGP” “3”Note: The default was 1 through NVIDIA Linux driver version 1.0-1251.
This option configures AGP support; integer value can be one of: 0: Disable AGP.
1: Use the NVIDIA internal AGP support, if possible.
2: Use AGPGART, if possible.
3: Use any AGP support (try AGPGART, then the NVIDIA AGP).
Note: The NVIDIA internal AGP support cannot work if AGPGART is either statically compiled into your kernel or is built as a module and loaded into your kernel. (Some distributions load AGPGART into the kernel during system start-up.)
The NVAGP driver loaded & ran fine for me. Gnome & KDE just kept locking up. I did find some more good reading. These folks seem to have had some success after messing with ACPI settings.
If you don`t want to use kernel`s AGPgart, the you have to do one of this:
if you compiled agp support as a module, the you have to disable auto-loaing via /etc/modules.conf (or conf.modules):
alias char-major-10-175 off #agpgart
if you compiled agp support built in the kernel, then you will have to re-compile your kernel, because you won`t be able to use nvidia`s agp driver (as they say in the docs)
However, nvidia`s driver does not work either.
I have a TNT2 M64 and I had to disable agp, because it hagns the system. It happens on W$ too(I guess it`s a BIOS agp issue).
Finally, if you want to use nvida`s agp support, you can do it via XF86Config file, by adding this line (as it appears)
Mmmmm...
Now that I fooled around a little, I found that my Apollo Pro (VIA 693a) supports only AGP V1.0, while nvidia supports AGP V2.0...Maybe this is messing things...
I don`t know.
I tried removing some hardware before boot (the first thing I did) but nothing changed...
Maybe I should try flashing my BIOS to upgrade it, but I think it`s a kind of risky step.
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