Hi,
When uptime reaches around three days, somehow a weird situation is
happening. X usage suddenly jumps around 99% freezing the X environment.
X seems to have frozen, but I can move the mouse pointer. Nothing else
can be done.
I log on to this machine from another one on the local area network
using ssh, and reboot it for a temporary solution. If I restart only the
X server, I believe it doesn't take that long to have the problem again.
a total reboot gives me another 2-3 days.
as soon as it freezes, connecting to this machine from the other one, I
tried looking at the log files under /var/log several times. no entry
has been added to xfree log in the last 10-15 minutes. and the files
which have been modified in 15 minutes does not have any entries
relating to the situaion, at least to my knowledge.
suspecting the ram of this partially new system, I checked my rams with
memtest-86-3.0. no problems are reported.
suspecting the gdm, I tried without it as well. problem regenerates as
usual.
I don't know whether it is related but, another strange issue I am
having is that: with or without gdm, sometime(not soon) after X login
"alt" key starts not functioning. for example, alt+shift cannot change
the keyboard layout or ctrl+alt+f{1-6} cannot take me to the consol and
of course I cannot kill the X server using ctrl+alt+backspace.
motherboard: Asus A7N8X
cpu: AMD Athlon 2500+
video card: creative tnt2ultra 2X
video driver: nvidia
distro: slackware 9.0
ram: 512MB
swap: 256MB
Do you have any ideas? where would you think I should start from?
thank you,
baris
