16 Nov
2004
16 Nov
'04
9:43 p.m.
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 03:51, Paul Davis wrote:
Some X screensavers that use opengl (and 3d graphics) can crash hard the
X subsystem.
I think kernel oops'es do that (blink the keyboard leds). At that point
there is not much you can do except power cycle or use the sysrq key if
that's enabled.
Hope rotterdam was fun!
-- Fernando
Am Sonntag 14
November 2004 09:57 schrieb Spencer Russell:
> I got the latest alsa-drivers from CVS, compiled and installed
> them, and it's still freezing up. I can have the modules loaded
> for as long as I like, but it's when I start jack that it seems
> to have problems. Most recently, I started qjackctl, it worked
> until I started Ardour, at which point qjackctl died. I killed
> and restarted jackd, and as soon as I started jackd my computer
> froze. Every time it freezes like this, my caps lock and scroll
> lock lights blink together. I got the same -11 error message
interestingly, gerard van dongen and i witnessed the exact same
behaviour on the machines rented for our workshop on ardour at DEAF in
rotterdam last week. however, these machines weren't running ardour or
JACK at the time - any time they went into the X screensaver, it
appeared, they died in this way. they were running a reasonably recent
Gentoo distribution. I think the
blinking is just a sign for a hard crash.
is there evidence of this anywhere? neither gerard or i had ever seen
this pattern of flashing LEDs.