X freezes on logout

[cake]

Hello all.

I have a wird problem. Any time I try to exit from my SuSE 8.1 or log in as a different user, with latest oficial SuSE kernel, and latest Nvidia drivers, the X starts the shutdown process, desktop disappears, then I get only blue lines over the whole screen and that's it, the machine freezes. I already have ACPI disabled in Kernel and when I disable ACPi in bios, this does not happen, but, I need acpi for WXP (Games only....).

My system:

MSI 845PE Max2
MSI GF4 Ti 4200
P4 2,4 GHz
512 MB Ram

If you have any suggestions, I will gladly accept any hint to solve this problem.

[bwkaz]

Why do you need ACPI for Windows XP? That doesn't make a lot of sense... it'll run just fine with ACPI disabled (at least, in my experience this has been the case).

[cake]

Well, If I swith off the ACPI in Bios, the WXP just refuses to start. I know this would be the easisest way to go, but it seems I need some other solution.

[elicriffield]

i have the same problem, but it seems my motherboard doesn't allow me to turn off acpi so i don't know if that would fix it or not.

X crashes hard (total lock that softdog can't recover from) every time i close X or go to a virtual terminal ALT-CTRL-1 then back to X ALT-CTRL-7

This is a show stoper to me.. If i can't figure out how to get this fixed i'll start trying to figure out how to my money back for this card.

Does anyone have a solution???

eli

Geforce 2 MX (with svideo tvout)
Redhat 8.0
Soyo Dragon Plus MB

[Andy Mecham]

Does the same crash happen if you use 1.0-3123?

--andy

[cake]

Yes, the same thing happened with 3123. I did not go more into the past, as I think 28xx something line was not ment for GF4.
Cake

[elicriffield]

with 1.0-3123 i can logout and when it restarts x i can log back in fine so that part works, but if i do ALT-CTL-1 to swtich to a virual terminal then back to X with ATL-CTRL-7 I get the same lockup

thanks

eli

[mczombie]

apm=off acpi=off acpi=force acpismp=force kernel options probably can fix your problem or try latest suse kernel from suse ftp.

[elicriffield]

Not sure what you mean by acpi=off then acpi=force??
I don't know of any force in my kernel config.

My Kernel has no "Power Management support"
so ACPI support is off and Advanced Power Management BIOS support is off ect...

I don't think i'll try a suse kernel on a redhat box.

eli

[elicriffield]

Oh it just hit me that you ment to pass them as options to the kernel on boot...

Would that make any diffrence if power managment isn't enabled in the kernel?

eli

[mczombie]

Dont know exacly about bios, i think it must be acpi compiliant for sure, about on or off not sure, try to search for some acpi howto or something.

[mczombie]

I found in suse kernel change log that this http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/
util can tell you is your system and bios ready for acpi or not, also you need latest acpi kernel patches applied.

[cake]

Hello.

Interesting thing happened. I accidentaly left the ACPI on and X apeeared...very slowly, you could see the screen redrawing, then the logo, after aloooooong time (5 minutes) the X starup screen, then destroyed into bars, slooow redraw with logo again and repeating the whole cycle again without the chance to kill it.....So the machine might not me completely dead, but slown down trmrndously.

This is spooky....

[cake]

Well, the things were sorted out by accident. I have lost my HDD, so I had to reinstall everything. Fresh SuSE 8.1 and 3120, or what the number is, drivers work fine. No problems at all. However, if you update SuSE kernel or get the latest drivers from Nvidia or both, the machine lockup on X-exit is for sure.

Cake :angel: