Slackware 13 frozen with radeon and HAL disabled
by mike_canada from LinuxQuestions.org on (#50XAF)
I configured my system to be almost as lean as possible.
My main GUI is the windowmaker.
Anyways, I notice something strange.
If I play too many or too long of videos or run firefox too much, then system will slow to a crawl until I reboot.
So then I investigate my X log file and everytime I exit the GUI, I get an error onscreen about MTRR not being able to set a value due to an "invalid argument".
At first I thought it was my video driver (radeon) causing that. So I tried a generic VESA driver just to be sure. While the log has different messages, I still get the same error.
So then I thought maybe HAL and messagebus are culprits so I disabled them from running, but once I try to start X, the screen is frozen. I can't use mouse or keyboard. However, if I load HAL and messagebus before X, then those things work again.
I will try disabling ACPI in the kernel itself to see if things improve (and that I don't get that MTRR error) but I remember one time before that my laptop fan was constantly running at high speed when that happen.
If anyone has a better answer, I'd like to hear it.
My main GUI is the windowmaker.
Anyways, I notice something strange.
If I play too many or too long of videos or run firefox too much, then system will slow to a crawl until I reboot.
So then I investigate my X log file and everytime I exit the GUI, I get an error onscreen about MTRR not being able to set a value due to an "invalid argument".
At first I thought it was my video driver (radeon) causing that. So I tried a generic VESA driver just to be sure. While the log has different messages, I still get the same error.
So then I thought maybe HAL and messagebus are culprits so I disabled them from running, but once I try to start X, the screen is frozen. I can't use mouse or keyboard. However, if I load HAL and messagebus before X, then those things work again.
I will try disabling ACPI in the kernel itself to see if things improve (and that I don't get that MTRR error) but I remember one time before that my laptop fan was constantly running at high speed when that happen.
If anyone has a better answer, I'd like to hear it.