Sep 5, 2004, 8:10 PM
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Mark Kamichoff wrote:
>>Symptoms include frozen display, or it won't wake up on key presses if
>>the monitors are in standby. No response from keyboard or mouse, and I
>>can't change to the console. I can however SSH in from another PC, see X
>>consuming 99% of the CPU cycles and kill it (only with signal 9 though).
>>Then GDM restarts and I can log back in and everything is fine...
>>
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>I've encountered the same problem, every couple of days. However, it
>only seems to manifest itself when I'm using the Xvideo extension, when
>using Xine or MPlayer. After X locks up, the audio track from the
>movie/clip keeps playing, which was pretty creepy, the first time it
>happened.
>
>This has been happening for awhile, through NVidia's 5xxx and 6xxx
>drivers. I believe it only started happening since I switched to DVI
>output on my video card. That still sounds like an NVidia problem,
>right?
>
>- Mark
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I had the sames problems before. Then I disabled Fast writes in the bios
of my motherboard, and now everything is ok...
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