XFCE Hangs

[roger]

Hi John,

Your X conf. file reads that your driver is "nv" (generic/opensource). 
However, your issue sounds like the nvidia bug.
I would suggest that you try "lsmod | grep nv", which should tell which driver 
is used.
If it says "nv", sorry I'm at lost... Otherwise (nvidia), it's likely that the 
X conf file used is not the one you think it is...

What sounds odd to me is that you can run KDE without problems. A faulty 
driver should generate the same problems, whatever window manager you use!?
In addition, I had in the past similar symptoms, except that no window 
managers was spared.
It was due to faulty hardware, the video card, which didn't prevent me to 
compile kernels, though.

Good luck,
Roger

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 02:58, John Lee wrote:
> Andrew Conkling wrote:
> >On 2/12/06, John Lee <johnleemk at gawab.com> wrote:
> >> Andrew Conkling wrote:
> >> On 2/9/06, Andrew Conkling <andrew.conkling at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> With the crazy NVidia bug, you couldn't even Ctrl+Alt+F1 to a vt; can
> >>you do this? If so, check 'top' for CPU usage and make sure X isn't
> >>throttling the CPU. If not, I would say this is something going on
> >>with X and/or the video driver.
> >>
> >> Followup on my followup: If not, you may also be able to ssh into your
> >>computer, assuming you have this set up and another computer on which
> >>to do it. If you can do this, you should be able to check 'top'.
> >>This is how I found out what happens when NVidia screws X over. :)
> >>
> >> Okay, I SSHed into it when it hung a few minutes ago, and I confirmed
> >> it's X that's causing the problem (something like 94% of the CPU). I
> >> restarted X from the SSH terminal. So, what now?
> >
> >It really does sound like you're running the nvidia drivers.  I'd say,
> >whichever you're running, switch them.  Also, make sure that this is
> >actually the file being used when you start X; you may have heard this
> >before :), but this *really* sounds like the nvidia bug....
> >
> >--
> >http://aconkling.blogspot.com
>
> What other drivers can I use? From what I've read on Google, etc. I
> definitely think is the nvidia bug, but how do I fix it? What other
> drivers are available, and how do I install them?
>
> John Lee