Fedora Freezes

Man · #1 24th March 2005, 09:40 PM

Fedora will freeze at seemingly random times. It only happens, however when I do something. I have had it happen when I click on a link in firefox, use a menu or interface in an application or the window manager, typing my password to log in, and other times. It happens with both GNOME and KDE. The application that does not have this problem is WoW with cedega. It ussually freezes within the first half hour of logging in. My mouse still moves but cant do anything, and is the only thing on my screen that moves. None of the keyboard shortcuts that Ive tried work. It stays this way untill I reset manually. I have XFree86 and the latest Nvidia driver, and FC3 with the latest released kernel. Any idea of where to start?

Man · #2 24th March 2005, 10:31 PM

Here is my XFree86.0.log after a crash. The crash happened right after I logged in.

Man · #3 24th March 2005, 10:35 PM

Heres another log with some possibly relevant errors before a crash.

#4 24th March 2005, 10:40 PM

Where did you get that X installation? It says in the top

Quote:

XFree86 Version 4.4.0
Release Date: 29 February 2004
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.18-14 i686 [ELF]

This seems not to be the official FDC 3 Xorg installation. And that might explain your problems.

Vinneh · #5 24th March 2005, 10:45 PM

Also, I've had this problem with the latest nvidia drivers.
Are you using 7129 or the 6-something one?

Man · #6 24th March 2005, 10:45 PM

I installed XFree86 by following the instructions at the XFree website. Does the FC3 Xorg work just as well? Cedega said I should install XFree86. Is that only if you dont already have X installed?

Vinneh · #7 24th March 2005, 10:49 PM

use xorg :P
it's the default for fedora.. includes less headache

but look at my earlier post

Man · #8 24th March 2005, 10:52 PM

I have 7167, I think. I downloaded the newest one off the Nvidia website.

Vinneh · #9 24th March 2005, 11:02 PM

It was unstable for me, you need to install 6629.
That fixed the issue

Man · #10 24th March 2005, 11:07 PM

ok thx Ill try that

Man · #11 24th March 2005, 11:35 PM

Thx! Everything works great now. I sure hope Nvidia fixes this problem, I can't imagine why Nvidia didnt see this bug, it makes using X with it nearly impossible!

Vinneh · #12 24th March 2005, 11:37 PM

Glad to be of some use :P

Man · #13 24th March 2005, 11:43 PM

Damn. It just froze again, although it has improved. When I installed it it said that I had rivafb, and that the driver would not function properly if it was running, but I didnt see it in the XFree config file (I haven't yet switched back to Xorg), Im not sure if that has anything to do with it.

Vinneh · #14 24th March 2005, 11:45 PM

did you reboot?
the old module is still loaded
try rebooting

Also, did the install delete the old module?

Man · #15 24th March 2005, 11:58 PM

I did reboot, and the installation removed the previous driver.