openSUSE 11.1 and XOrg

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Hey guys,

Running openSUSE 11.1 and latest XOrg with a nVidia GeForce FX 5900xt (one click install). I’m having random freezes, only mouse movement. Any help?

xorg.conf file:


# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder63)  Mon Mar  2 12:45:55 PST 2009

# /.../
# SaX generated X11 config file
# Created on: 2009-09-20T05:41:29-0400.
#
# Version: 8.1
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2005
# Contact: SaX-User list <https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sax-users>
#
# Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1)
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout[all]"
    Screen         "Screen[0]" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
    Option         "Clone" "off"
    Option         "Xinerama" "off"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    InputDevices      "/dev/gpmdata"
    InputDevices      "/dev/input/mice"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/local"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/URW"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/kwintv"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/CID"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/xtest"
    FontPath        "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
    Option         "ZapWarning" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard[0]"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "Protocol" "Standard"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option         "XkbModel" "microsoftpro"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse[1]"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Name" "USB-compliant keyboard"
    Option         "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
    Option         "Vendor" "Sysp"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Modes"
    Identifier         "Modes[0]"
    ModeLine     "1400x1050" 121 1400 1488 1632 1864 1050 1053 1057 1089 +hsync -vsync
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor[0]"
    VendorName     "WDE"
    ModelName      "L2046NV"
    UseModes       "Modes[0]"
    DisplaySize     408    306
    HorizSync       30.0 - 82.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 76.0
    Option         "CalcAlgorithm" "XServerPool"
    Option         "DPMS"
    Option         "PreferredMode" "1400x1050"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device[0]"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVidia"
    BoardName      "GeForce FX 5900XT"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen[0]"
    Device         "Device[0]"
    Monitor        "Monitor[0]"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "RenderAccel" "True"
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       15
        Modes      "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes      "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes      "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
2

What spec have you: RAM etc…
Did you disable Beagle or delete it?
What desktop: kde or gnome?

Have you run top in a terminal to see what might be causing issues. Your xorg looks OK, I think.

3

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2500
RAM: 1GB DDR400
VGA: 5900XT

Beagle not disabled.

Gnome

Havent touched the xorg.conf.

X and gnome-terminal are running at the top, seems as though this computer freezes when a lot of apps are running, it just happened as I was typing up a response earlier, and I was running RhythmBox, FF, and couple terminal windows. What do ya think?

4

I would disable beagle and desktop effects.

5

Hmm…I’ll disable beagle, not sure if I want to do the desktop effects just yet, I’m really starting to like it, lol.

Is this a hardware limitation or an xorg/gnome issue? I’ve had this problem when I tried setting my desktop effects to low too.

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Heres the output for “top” right now (after I removed Beagle):


top - 23:51:36 up 26 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.17, 0.15, 0.13
Tasks: 123 total,   3 running, 120 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  1.2%us,  0.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 97.6%id,  0.9%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1032920k total,   630692k used,   402228k free,    24296k buffers
Swap:  2104472k total,        0k used,  2104472k free,   344428k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 2187 root      20   0 91516  40m  10m R  0.7  4.0   0:31.00 X                  
 4431 rhys      20   0  238m  65m  23m S  0.2  6.5   0:33.76 firefox            
    1 root      20   0  1008  360  308 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.28 init               
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd           
    3 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0        
    4 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.04 ksoftirqd/0        
    5 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.26 events/0           
    6 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper            
    7 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kintegrityd/0      
    8 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.08 kblockd/0          
    9 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid             
   10 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpi_notify       
   11 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 cqueue             
   12 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kseriod            
   13 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kondemand/0        
   14 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.04 pdflush            
   15 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush
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That looks OK. See how you get on. Good move on lowering the effects. I’m a kde user. I’m not aware of any significant differences between the two in respect of effects.